CVE-2025-10016 Local Privilege Escalation in Sparkle Autoupdate Daemon

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...

CVE-2025-10016

The CVE-2025-10016 issue affects the Sparkle framework’s Autoupdate/Downloader.xpc mechanism. Reports in connected sources describe a local, unprivileged attacker who can exploit a race condition by connecting to the daemon as root to request installation of a crafted PKG, leading to local privil...