# CVE-2025-8700: Privilege Escalation via get-task-allow entitlement in Invoice Ninja

> Local attackers can attach debuggers to Invoice Ninja on macOS due to the get-task-allow entitlement, enabling code injection and bypassing security controls.

- **Severity:** Medium 4.8 (`CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Any signed-in user
- **Attackable:** Local or same network only
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 26 Aug 2025
- **Updated:** 26 Aug 2025
- **Also known as:** GHSA-2x9q-pf3q-cg3c

## What is CVE-2025-8700?

CVE-2025-8700 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Invoice Ninja, published on 26 Aug 2025. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

Invoice Ninja's configuration on macOS, specifically the presence of entitlement "com.apple.security.get-task-allow", allows local attackers with unprivileged access (e.g. via a malicious application) to attach a debugger, read or modify the process memory, inject code in the application's context despite being signed with Hardened Runtime and bypass Transparency, Consent, and Control (TCC). Acquired resource access is limited to previously granted permissions by the user. Access to other resources beyond granted permissions requires user interaction with a system prompt asking for permission.

According to Apple documentation, when a non-root user runs an app with the debugging tool entitlement, the system presents an authorization dialog asking for a system administrator's credentials. Since there is no prompt when the target process has "get-task-allow" entitlement, the presence of this entitlement was decided to be treated as a vulnerability because it removes one step needed to perform an attack.

This issue was fixed in version 5.0.175

Weakness: CWE-497 (Exposure of Sensitive System Information to an Unauthorized Control Sphere)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-8700?


## How do I fix CVE-2025-8700?

No fix has been published for CVE-2025-8700 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2025-8700 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-8700 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2025-8700 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2025-8700 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Invoice Ninja, published on 26 Aug 2025. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-8700 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Invoice Ninja. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-8700/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-8700/index.md)
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## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-8700
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-8700
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2025-8700

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-8700/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.