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CVE-2025-55076

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.2 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: 2025-12-03 · updated 2026-10-26
• Weakness: CWE-269

Description

A local privilege escalation vulnerability exists in the InstallationHelper service included with Plugin Alliance Installation Manager v1.4.0 for macOS. The service accepts unauthenticated XPC connections and executes input via system(), which may allow a local user to execute arbitrary commands with root privileges.

Affected products

• Plugin-Alliance Installation Manager: 1.4.0

References

• https://almightysec.com/plugin-alliance-helpertool-xpc-service-local-privilege-escalation/

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