Local Privilege Escalation in Sparkle Autoupdate Daemon_CVE-2025-10016

8.8 / 10

HIGH

CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:H/SI:H/SA:H

Description

The Sparkle framework includes a helper tool Autoupdate. Due to lack of authentication of connecting clients a local unprivileged attacker can request installation of crafted malicious PKG file by racing to connect to the daemon when other app spawns it as root. This results in local privilege escalation to root privileges. It is worth noting that it is possible to spawn Autopudate manually via Installer XPC service. However this requires the victim to enter credentials upon system authorization dialog creation that can be modified by the attacker.

This issue was fixed in version 2.7.2

Basic Information

ID CVE-2025-10016

Source CERT-PL

Published Sep 16, 2025 at 10:03

Affected Product

Vendor Sparkle Project

Product Sparkle

Affected Versions Sparkle Project Sparkle 0

CWE Classification

CWE-863

References

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