CVE-2025-8597

Privilege Escalation via get-task-allow entitlement in MacVim.app

MEDIUM
4.8
CVSS Score
Published: August 26, 2025 at 12:23 PM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 10:07 AM UTC
2 products affected across 2 vendorsMacvimMacVim

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Severity
MEDIUM4.8
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.1%
SSVC
No known exploit

Description

MacVim's configuration on macOS, specifically the presence of entitlement "com.apple.security.get-task-allow", allows local attackers with unprivileged access (e.g. via a malicious application) to attach a debugger, read or modify the process memory, inject code in the application's context despite being signed with Hardened Runtime and bypass Transparency, Consent, and Control (TCC). Acquired resource access is limited to previously granted permissions by the user. Access to other resources beyond granted permissions requires user interaction with a system prompt asking for permission. According to Apple documentation, when a non-root user runs an app with the debugging tool entitlement, the system presents an authorization dialog asking for a system administrator's credentials. Since there is no prompt when the target process has "get-task-allow" entitlement, the presence of this entitlement was decided to be treated as a vulnerability because it removes one step needed to perform an attack. This issue was fixed in build r181.2

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

All versions
v < r181.2
Affected range stops below r181.2, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement

Remediation

No guide yet

No remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet, and no fixed version or vendor advisory is recorded against it.

SSVC — Action Prioritization

SSVCNo known exploitNot automatablePartial impact

SSVC signals action urgency (what to patch first), separate from CVSS which measures severity.

CVSS

4.8MEDIUMCERT-PL
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusDEFERRED
CWE
CWE-497

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