CVE-2025-8672 (GCVE-0-2025-8672)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-08-11 12:21
Modified
2025-08-11 19:45
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-276 - Incorrect Default Permissions
Summary
MacOS version of GIMP 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 GIMP, potentially disguising attacker's malicious intent. This issue has been fixed in 3.1.4.2 version of GIMP.
References
cvd@cert.plhttps://cert.pl/en/posts/2025/08/tcc-bypass/Third Party Advisory
cvd@cert.plhttps://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gimp/-/issues/13848Issue Tracking
cvd@cert.plhttps://gitlab.gnome.org/Infrastructure/gimp-macos-buildProduct
cvd@cert.plhttps://www.jamf.com/blog/zero-day-tcc-bypass-discovered-in-xcsset-malware/Third Party Advisory
Impacted products
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GIMP GIMP Version: 0   < 3.1.4.2
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