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CVE-2025-14979: Eddie VPN 2.24.6 - Local Privilege Escalation

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2026-01-06 · updated 2026-10-07
• Weakness: CWE-732

Description

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.

Affected products

• AirVPN Eddie: 2.24.6

References

• https://airvpn.org/forums/topic/79305-eddie-desktop-edition-225-beta-released/
• https://eddie.website/
• https://fluidattacks.com/advisories/blink182
• https://github.com/AirVPN/Eddie

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