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CVE-2025-14979 (GCVE-0-2025-14979)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-01-06 15:15 – Updated: 2026-03-03 16:20
VLAI
Title
Eddie VPN 2.24.6 - Local Privilege Escalation
Summary
AirVPN Eddie on MacOS contains an insecure XPC service that allows local, unprivileged users to escalate their privileges to root.This issue affects Eddie: 2.24.6.
Severity
8.5 (High)
CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
SSVC
Exploitation: poc Automatable: no Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2026-01-06 15:36 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-732 - Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
AirVPN Eddie Affected: 2.24.6
    cpe:2.3:a:airvpn:eddie:2.24.6:*:macos:*:*:*:*:*
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Credits
Oscar Uribe
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