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CVE-2025-22165:
Homebrew vulnerability analysis and mitigation
Overview
A Medium severity Arbitrary Code Execution (ACE) vulnerability was discovered in Sourcetree for Mac version 4.2.8. The vulnerability (CVE-2025-22165) allows a locally authenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code with high impact to confidentiality, integrity, and availability, though it requires user interaction (NVD, Tenable).
Technical details
The vulnerability has a CVSS v4.0 score of 5.9 (Medium) with the following vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:P/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:H/SI:H/SA:L. The attack requires local access and user interaction, but can lead to high impacts on system confidentiality, integrity, and availability (NVD).
Impact
If successfully exploited, this vulnerability allows an attacker with local access to execute arbitrary code in the context of any user running the Sourcetree application, potentially leading to high impacts on system confidentiality, integrity, and availability (Atlassian).
Mitigation and workarounds
Atlassian recommends that Sourcetree for Mac users upgrade to version 4.2.12 or later. If users are unable to upgrade to the latest version, they should upgrade to one of the specified supported fixed versions available from the download center (NVD).
Community reactions
The vulnerability was discovered through the Atlassian Bug Bounty Program by security researcher Karol Mazurek (AFINE) (NVD).
Additional resources
Source: This report was generated using AI
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