CVE-2025-10016

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-10016
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2025-10016.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2025-10016
Published
2025-09-16T10:03:28Z
Modified
2026-08-12T03:51:28Z
Severity
  • 8.8 (High) CVSS_V4 - 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 CVSS Calculator
Summary
Local Privilege Escalation in Sparkle Autoupdate Daemon
Details

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

Database specific 
{
    "cna_assigner": "CERT-PL",
    "cwe_ids": [
        "CWE-863"
    ],
    "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2025/10xxx/CVE-2025-10016.json"
}
References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/sparkle-project/sparkle

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/sparkle-project/sparkle
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Fixed
4f20e5d173205492ee1fddbdf43ded7f176c366b
Database specific
Show details 
{
    "extracted_events": [
        {
            "introduced": "0"
        },
        {
            "fixed": "2.7.2"
        }
    ],
    "source": "AFFECTED_FIELD"
}

Affected versions

1.*
1.10.0
1.10.0rc1
1.11.0
1.11.0rc1
1.11.0rc2
1.12.0
1.12.0a1
1.12.0a2
1.12.0a3
1.14.0rc1
1.6.0
1.6.1
1.7.0
1.7.1
1.8.0
1.9.0
1.9.0rc1
2.*
2.0.0
2.0.0-beta.1
2.0.0-beta.2
2.0.0-beta.3
2.0.0-beta.4
2.0.0-beta.5
2.0.0-beta.6
2.0.0-rc.1
2.1.0
2.1.0-beta.1
2.1.0-beta.2
2.2.0
2.2.0-beta.1
2.2.0-beta.2
2.2.1
2.3.0
2.3.0-beta.1
2.3.0-beta.2
2.4.0
2.4.0-beta.1
2.4.0-beta.2
2.4.1
2.4.1-beta.1
2.4.2
2.5.0
2.5.0-beta.1
2.5.0-beta.2
2.5.1
2.6.0
2.6.0-beta.1
2.6.0-beta.2
2.6.1
2.6.2
2.7.0
2.7.0-beta.1
2.7.1
sparkle-1.*
sparkle-1.5b1
sparkle-1.5b2
sparkle-1.5b3
sparkle-1.5b4
sparkle-1.5b5
sparkle-1.5b6

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2025-10016.json"