CVE-2025-8533 PUBLISHED

Incorrect Authorization of XPC Service in Fantastical.app

Assigner: CERT-PL
Reserved: 04.08.2025 Published: 07.08.2025 Updated: 07.08.2025

A vulnerability was identified in the XPC services of Fantastical. The services failed to implement proper client authorization checks in its listener:shouldAcceptNewConnection method, unconditionally accepting requests from any local process. As a result, any local, unprivileged process could connect to the XPC service and access its methods.

This issue has been resolved in version 4.0.16.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
CVSS Score: 6.9

Product Status

Vendor Flexibits
Product Fantastical
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 0 to 4.0.16 (excl.)

Credits

  • Karol Mazurek - Afine Team finder
  • Sławomir Zakrzewski - Afine Team finder

References

Problem Types

  • CWE-863 Incorrect Authorization CWE