A local privilege escalation vulnerability exists in the InstallationHelper service included with Plugin Alliance Installation Manager v1.4.0 for macOS. The service accepts unauthenticated XPC connections and executes input via system(), which may allow a local user to execute arbitrary commands with root privileges.
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Fri, 19 Dec 2025 06:00:00 +0900

Type Values Removed Values Added
First Time appeared Plugin-alliance
Plugin-alliance installation Manager
CPEs cpe:2.3:a:plugin-alliance:installation_manager:1.4.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:apple:macos:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Vendors & Products Plugin-alliance
Plugin-alliance installation Manager

Fri, 05 Dec 2025 01:45:00 +0900

Type Values Removed Values Added
First Time appeared Apple
Apple macos
Plugin Alliance
Plugin Alliance installation Manager
Vendors & Products Apple
Apple macos
Plugin Alliance
Plugin Alliance installation Manager

Thu, 04 Dec 2025 02:15:00 +0900

Type Values Removed Values Added
Weaknesses CWE-269
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 6.2, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N'}

ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'poc', 'Technical Impact': 'total'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


Thu, 04 Dec 2025 01:30:00 +0900

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Description A local privilege escalation vulnerability exists in the InstallationHelper service included with Plugin Alliance Installation Manager v1.4.0 for macOS. The service accepts unauthenticated XPC connections and executes input via system(), which may allow a local user to execute arbitrary commands with root privileges.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2025-12-03T16:34:25.837Z

Reserved: 2025-11-25T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2025-55076

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2025-12-03T16:34:22.404Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2025-12-03T17:15:52.493

Modified: 2025-12-18T20:56:41.777

Link: CVE-2025-55076

cve-icon Redhat

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cve-icon OpenCVE Enrichment

Updated: 2025-12-05T01:44:14Z

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