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...

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...