TCC permission inheritance via unhardened App Store binary
Published Dec 17, 2025 · Updated Dec 17, 2025
Protection mechanism failure in Mattermost Desktop App before 6.0.0 allows local users to inherit TCC permissions on macOS. The Mac App Store package omits Hardened Runtime from the app's code signature, so copying its binary to a temporary folder preserves the app's TCC grants. Exploitation requires low local privileges and user interaction, and the reported consequence is limited to access or modification through inherited privacy permissions.
Summary
What happened
Protection mechanism failure in Mattermost Desktop App before 6.0.0 allows local users to inherit TCC permissions on macOS. The Mac App Store package omits Hardened Runtime from the app's code signature, so copying its binary to a temporary folder preserves the app's TCC grants. Exploitation requires low local privileges and user interaction, and the reported consequence is limited to access or modification through inherited privacy permissions.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2025-13326
- Published
- Dec 17, 2025
- Updated
- Dec 17, 2025
- Vendor
- Mattermost
- Product
- Mattermost
- Classifications
- CWE-693, T1548.006
- Attack vector
- local
- Privileges
- authenticated
Timeline
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- Dec 17, 2025CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Dec 17, 2025Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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- Affected versionversion=0 <=6.0.0
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