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CVE PROGRAM SOURCE RECORD4.8 Medium

CVE-2025-4280

TCC Bypass via Inherited Permissions in Bundled Interpreter in Poedit.app

Description

MacOS version of Poedit bundles a Python interpreter that inherits the Transparency, Consent, and Control (TCC) permissions granted by the user to the main application bundle. An attacker with local user access can invoke this interpreter with arbitrary commands or scripts, leveraging the application's previously granted TCC permissions to access user's files in privacy-protected folders without triggering user prompts. Accessing other resources beyond previously granted TCC permissions will prompt the user for approval in the name of Poedit, potentially disguising attacker's malicious intent. This issue has been fixed in 3.6.3 version of Poedit.

Affected products

Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.

Poedit Poedit

Default version status: unaffected

  • 2.0 to < 3.6.3affected

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