CVE-2025-65842

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Source

https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-65842

Import Source

https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2025-65842.json

JSON Data

https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2025-65842

Published

2025-12-03T17:15:54.317Z

Modified

2026-03-13T03:41:22.854215Z

Severity

5.1 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N CVSS Calculator

Summary

[none]

Details

The Aquarius HelperTool (1.0.003) privileged XPC service on macOS contains multiple flaws that allow local privilege escalation. The service accepts XPC connections from any local process without validating the client's identity, and its authorization logic incorrectly calls AuthorizationCopyRights with a NULL reference, causing all authorization checks to succeed. The executeCommand:authorization:withReply: method then interpolates attacker-controlled input into NSTask and executes it with root privileges. A local attacker can exploit these weaknesses to run arbitrary commands as root, create persistent backdoors, or obtain a fully interactive root shell.

References

https://almightysec.com/helpertool-xpc-service-local-privilege-escalation/

Affected packages

Git /

Affected ranges

Database specific

source

"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2025-65842.json"

unresolved_ranges

[
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
                "last_affected": "1.0.003"
            }
        ]
    }
]