A local privilege escalation vulnerability exists in the Plugin Alliance InstallationHelper service included with Plugin Alliance Installation Manager v1.4.0 on macOS. Due to the absence of a hardened runtime and a __RESTRICT segment, a local user may exploit the DYLD_INSERT_LIBRARIES environment variable to inject a dynamic library, potentially resulting in code execution with elevated privileges.
History

Thu, 04 Dec 2025 16:45:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
First Time appeared Apple
Apple macos
Plugin Alliance
Plugin Alliance installation Manager
Vendors & Products Apple
Apple macos
Plugin Alliance
Plugin Alliance installation Manager

Wed, 03 Dec 2025 17:15:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
Weaknesses CWE-269
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 6.2, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N'}

ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'poc', 'Technical Impact': 'total'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


Wed, 03 Dec 2025 16:30:00 +0000

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Description A local privilege escalation vulnerability exists in the Plugin Alliance InstallationHelper service included with Plugin Alliance Installation Manager v1.4.0 on macOS. Due to the absence of a hardened runtime and a __RESTRICT segment, a local user may exploit the DYLD_INSERT_LIBRARIES environment variable to inject a dynamic library, potentially resulting in code execution with elevated privileges.
References

cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2025-12-03T16:33:29.749Z

Reserved: 2025-11-25T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2025-62686

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2025-12-03T16:33:25.757Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Awaiting Analysis

Published: 2025-12-03T17:15:52.993

Modified: 2025-12-04T17:15:08.283

Link: CVE-2025-62686

cve-icon Redhat

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