CVE-2025-55076

CVSS 6.2 MEDIUMEPSS 0.2%CWE-269

Vexday Risk Score

13Low

SSVC decision (CISA)

Track

No exploitation signal → monitor

CVSS 6.2EPSS 0.2%KEV nãoPoC —Nuclei —Metasploit —Patch —

Lifecycle

03 Dec 2025Published on NVD

Recommendation: Monitor — no exploitation signal at the moment.

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.

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

Affected products

n/a · n/a

References

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