CVE-2025-54871

Electron Capture is Vulnerable to TCC Bypass via Misconfigured Node Fuses (macOS)

CVSS 5.5 MEDIUMEPSS 0.2%CWE-284

Vexday Risk Score

13Low

SSVC decision (CISA)

Track

No exploitation signal → monitor

CVSS 5.5EPSS 0.2%KEV nãoPoC —Nuclei —Metasploit —Patch —

Lifecycle

05 Aug 2025Published on NVD

Recommendation: Monitor — no exploitation signal at the moment.

Electron Capture facilitates video playback for screen-sharing and capture. In versions 2.19.1 and below, the elecap app on macOS allows local unprivileged users to bypass macOS TCC privacy protections by enabling ELECTRON_RUN_AS_NODE. This environment variable allows arbitrary Node.js code to be executed via the -e flag, which runs inside the main Electron context, inheriting any previously granted TCC entitlements (such as access to Documents, Downloads, etc.). This issue is fixed in version 2.20.0.

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Affected products

steveseguin · electroncapture

References

https://github.com/steveseguin/electroncapture/commit/3837f54e75911bb99fa45cfa138a5e401d16f531 https://github.com/steveseguin/electroncapture/releases/tag/2.20.0 https://github.com/steveseguin/electroncapture/security/advisories/GHSA-8849-p3j4-jq4h