CVE-2025-10016 json
Local Privilege Escalation in Sparkle Autoupdate Daemon
published 2025-09-16 13 mo ago modified 2026-10-19 20 d ago also EUVD-2025-29539
- cvss
- 8.8
- version 4.0, CNA
- cisa kev
- Not listed
- not in CISA's catalog
- epss
- 0.2%
- EPSS 0.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 9%
- public exploits
- 0
- none known
Summary
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
Patch / fix
- Sparkle Project Sparkle 2.7.2
CISA SSVC
- Exploitation
- none
- Automatable
- no
- Technical impact
- partial
- Assessed
- 13 mo ago
Exploit prediction
0.20% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 9% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).
CVSS scores
| assigned by | version | score | vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| CNA | 4.0 | 8.8 | 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 |
| CNA | 4.0 | 8.8 | 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/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X |
Affected products
- Sparkle Project Sparkle
Classification
- Weakness
-
- CWE-863 Incorrect Authorization
References
-
github.com
/sparkle-project/Sparkle/discussions/2764
vendor-advisory
-
cert.pl
/en/posts/2025/09/CVE-2025-10015
third-party-advisory
-
github.com
/sparkle-project/Sparkle
product
Sources
- CVE List CVE-2025-10016
- NVD CVE-2025-10016
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