ZDF
Sign inSign up

Vulnerabilities

Vulnerability · CVE-2025-8672

MacOS version of GIMP bundles a Python interpreter that inherits the Transparency, Consent, and Control (TCC) permissions granted by the user to the main application bundle.

Published Aug 11, 2025 · catalog updated Aug 11, 2025 · GIMP GIMP

Last checked Oct 26, 2026. A connected source was read within the last 7 days.

Check if you run it

No confirmed exploitation is on record for CVE-2025-8672. EPSS is 0.34%. Act only if a listed version of GIMP GIMP is installed.

Gaps on this record

  • No vendor fix or required action is stored. Compare the linked advisory before you change production.

Same product and reporting

Severity
Medium4.8
Known exploitation
Not in CISA/VulnCheck KEV
EPSS
0.34%
Remediation
Version ranges on file
Affected products
vendor GIMP GIMP 0 <3.1.4.2

MacOS version of GIMP bundles a Python interpreter that inherits the Transparency, Consent, and Control (TCC) permissions granted by the user to the main application bundle. An attacker with local user access can invoke this interpreter with arbitrary commands or scripts, leveraging the application's previously granted TCC permissions to access user's files in privacy-protected folders without triggering user prompts. Accessing other resources beyond previously granted TCC permissions will prompt the user for approval in the name of GIMP, potentially disguising attacker's malicious intent. Thi

Are you affected?

Enter the version you run. The result uses only the ranges stored on this record.

The check returns affected, not affected, or incomplete. It does not guess a version that is missing from the record.

  • vendor GIMP GIMP 0 <3.1.4.20 <3.1.4.2

How to fix CVE-2025-8672

What to do

Three questions, each answered from this record only. Confirm the vendor advisory before you patch.

Should you patch?

No confirmed exploitation is on record for CVE-2025-8672. EPSS is 0.34%. Act only if a listed version of GIMP GIMP is installed.

Which versions are affected?

Compare what you have installed with GIMP GIMP 0 <3.1.4.2 0 <3.1.4.2. Compare the installed version with the linked vendor advisory before you change production.

What should an analyst verify?

No weakness class is stored. EPSS 0.34%. There is no CISA KEV listing. No Exploit-DB or Metasploit reference is linked. Use the source links for the original advisory.

Code

The project this record applies to. Exploit listings stay in References.

No public source repository is identified for this product.

Timeline

Detection, updates, and resolution for this record.

  1. Aug 11, 2025 · EUVD

    Detected

    MacOS version of GIMP bundles a Python interpreter that inherits the Transparency, Consent, and Control (TCC) permissions granted by the user to the main application bundle. An attacker with local user access can invoke this interpreter with arbitrary commands or scripts, leveraging the application's previously granted TCC permissions to access user's files in privacy-protected folders without tri

  2. Aug 11, 2025 · EUVD

    Updated

    MacOS version of GIMP bundles a Python interpreter that inherits the Transparency, Consent, and Control (TCC) permissions granted by the user to the main application bundle. An attacker with local user access can invoke this interpreter with arbitrary commands or scripts, leveraging the application's previously granted TCC permissions to access user's files in privacy-protected folders without tri

Sources

  • CVE.orgVulnerability recordCVE-2025-8672

    Official CVE identifier

    cve.org
  • FIRST EPSSExploitation probabilityCVE-2025-8672

    30-day exploitation probability 0.34%

    first.org
  • EUVDVulnerability recordEUVD-2025-24141

    MacOS version of GIMP bundles a Python interpreter that inherits the Transparency, Consent, and Control (TCC) permissions granted by the user to the main application bundle. An attacker with local user access can invoke this interpreter with arbitrary commands or scripts, leverag

    euvd.enisa.europa.eu

References

Freshness

Last verified in this catalog Oct 26, 2026. Significant claims (KEV, EPSS, CVSS, affected ranges) come from the source rows above — open the original publisher for the authoritative advisory.

  • FIRST EPSSOct 23, 2026
  • CVE.orgOct 21, 2026
  • EUVDOct 20, 2026