Can You Really Trust That Permission Pop-Up on macOS? (CVE-2025-31250)

Re:Can You Really Trust That Permission Pop-Up on macOS? (CV... by hbn on Monday May 12, 2025 @04:55PM (#43967369)

As of the latest macOS update, every app is now asking every few days if it can have access to devices on your local network, or something to that tune. My theory right now is it's something in chromium that automatically asking for this and Electron apps will do this out of the box, but I can't remember which apps exactly have been doing this.

Regardless, yes it causes the exact issue you're talking about. I don't even read what the popups say anymore, I'm just blindly hitting an accept button.

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Re:Can You Really Trust That Permission Pop-Up on macOS? (CV... by jonplackett on Monday May 12, 2025 @05:05PM (#43967449)

I’m surprised Apple have let this happen.

When you make an iOS app and requested permission for something - photo library or location etc. you MUST write out a sentence of what you’ll use it for which is shown to the user.

Why not the same for Mac apps?

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Re:Can You Really Trust That Permission Pop-Up on macOS? (CV... by reaperducer on Monday May 12, 2025 @06:11PM (#43967934)

Why not the same for Mac apps?

How would Apple enforce that?

iOS apps go through the App Store, so proper behavior can be enforced.

The apps people are complaining about here are downloaded from the vendor. Apple is not involved.

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Re:Can You Really Trust That Permission Pop-Up on macOS? (CV... by Kwpolska on Tuesday May 13, 2025 @02:54AM (#43970226)

Apple controls the OS and permission system. They could just automatically reject all permission requests with an empty/short reason.

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Re:Can You Really Trust That Permission Pop-Up on macOS? (CV... by beezlewax on Monday May 12, 2025 @05:12PM (#43967514)

This is chrome for sure. There a bunch of threads if you search the actual error message you'll get hits on stackoverflow and in apple forums

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Re:Can You Really Trust That Permission Pop-Up on macOS? (CV... by saagarjha on Tuesday May 13, 2025 @05:46AM (#43971225)

Nobody knows what they are; Apple provides no tools to diagnose what it is.

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