Vulnerability · Published May 22, 2025 · Assigned by CERT-PL

CVE-2025-4280TCC Bypass via Inherited Permissions in Bundled Interpreter in Poedit.app

Medium 4.8

In plain English

A medium-severity incorrect default permissions in Poedit from Poedit. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.2% (higher than 8% of all known vulnerabilities).

Severity (CVSS 4.0)4.8Medium

Exploit odds (30 days)0.2%top 92.1% of all CVEs

Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: none

Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official 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 (as reported)

Vendor	Product	Versions
Poedit	Poedit	2.0 – before 3.6.3

Weakness: CWE-276 · Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

References

https://cert.pl/posts/2025/05/CVE-2025-4280 third-party-advisory
https://cert.pl/en/posts/2025/05/CVE-2025-4280 third-party-advisory
https://poedit.net product
https://github.com/vslavik/poedit product
https://github.com/vslavik/poedit/security/advisories/GHSA-8fcw-v6gr-hp34 third-party-advisory