TCC Bypass via Inherited Permissions in Bundled Interpreter in Poedit.app
Summary
TCC Bypass via Inherited Permissions in Bundled Interpreter in Poedit.app
Original description
The description as published by the source.
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.
Source: OSV.dev (Open Source Vulnerabilities) NVD GitHub Advisory OSV
References
- advisory cert.pl
- advisory cert.pl
- advisory github.com
- advisory github.com
- advisory nvd.nist.gov
- package github.com
- web poedit.net