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TCC Bypass vulnerability in GIMP application for MacOS
11 August 2025 | CERT Polska | #vulnerability, #warning, #cve
CVE ID CVE-2025-8672
Publication date 11 August 2025
Vendor GIMP
Product GIMP
Vulnerable versions All before 3.1.4.2
Vulnerability type (CWE) Incorrect Default Permissions (CWE-276)
Report source Report to CERT Polska

Description

CERT Polska has received a report about vulnerability in GIMP software and participated in coordination of its disclosure.

The vulnerability CVE-2025-8672: 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.

Credits

We thank Karol Mazurek - Afine Team for the responsible vulnerability report.

More about the coordinated vulnerability disclosure process at CERT Polska can be found at https://cert.pl/en/cvd/.