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CVE-2025-8597 (GCVE-0-2025-8597)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-08-26 12:23 – Updated: 2025-08-26 13:54 X_Open Source
VLAI
Title
Privilege Escalation via get-task-allow entitlement in MacVim.app
Summary
MacVim's configuration on macOS, specifically the presence of entitlement "com.apple.security.get-task-allow", allows local attackers with unprivileged access (e.g. via a malicious application) to attach a debugger, read or modify the process memory, inject code in the application's context despite being signed with Hardened Runtime and bypass Transparency, Consent, and Control (TCC). Acquired resource access is limited to previously granted permissions by the user. Access to other resources beyond granted permissions requires user interaction with a system prompt asking for permission. According to Apple documentation, when a non-root user runs an app with the debugging tool entitlement, the system presents an authorization dialog asking for a system administrator's credentials. Since there is no prompt when the target process has "get-task-allow" entitlement, the presence of this entitlement was decided to be treated as a vulnerability because it removes one step needed to perform an attack. This issue was fixed in build r181.2
Severity
4.8 (Medium)
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
CWE
  • CWE-497 - Exposure of Sensitive System Information to an Unauthorized Control Sphere
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
MacVim MacVim Affected: 0 , < r181.2 (custom)
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Date Public
2025-08-26 17:26
Credits
Karol Mazurek - AFINE Team
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CVE-2023-41036 (GCVE-0-2023-41036)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-09-12 19:48 – Updated: 2024-11-27 16:17
VLAI
Title
Macvim's Insecure Usage of IPC Mechanisms
Summary
Macvim is a text editor for MacOS. Prior to version 178, Macvim makes use of an insecure interprocess communication (IPC) mechanism which could lead to a privilege escalation. Distributed objects are a concept introduced by Apple which allow one program to vend an interface to another program. What is not made clear in the documentation is that this service can vend this interface to any other program on the machine. The impact of exploitation is a privilege escalation to root - this is likely to affect anyone who is not careful about the software they download and use MacVim to edit files that would require root privileges. Version 178 contains a fix for this issue.
Severity
7.8 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • CWE-269 - Improper Privilege Management
Assigner
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Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
macvim-dev macvim Affected: < 178
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