Asking for access to Contacts and Calendar

[Tilma11]

MCEdit Unified bug report template. For MCEdit 2.0 bugs see here : https://github.com/mcedit/mcedit2

Possible trojan? Initial launch of v1.5.6.0 for macOS, downloaded from mcedit-unified.net (which appears to connect to https://github.com/Podshot/MCEdit-Unified/releases/download/1.5.6.0/MCEdit.v1.5.6.0.OSX.64bit.zip), results in a request for access to Contacts and Calendar

MCEdit Version: 1.5.6.0

Minecraft Version the world was last opened in: n/a

Operating System: macOS 10.14

A screenshot or full text of the error from the console: n/a

How to reproduce: Download macOS v1.5.6.0 zip from mcedit-unified.net; launch in macOS.

[kyleplo]

Yes i think this is some kind of virus

[Podshot]

@Tilma11 We have no code in the application that accesses either of these things, so it might be due to a security thing in macOS or the process our compiler uses to make it compatible with macOS. However, I don't have a Mac to reproduce this on, thus I cannot confirm if this is a one off issue or not, since we've not received many reports of this happening from our official downloads to my knowledge.

@kyleplo If you have a reason to suspect we have malicious code in our codebase, please refer me to it so I can look it over and remove it if necessary

[fluxens]

@Podshot Can confirm that the application requests calendar access on macOS 10.15.5 (19F101) when trying to open a world.

filename: MCEdit.v1.5.6.0.OSX.64bit.zip (md5 8952c169f7e51d3ff2e7ce1de0dd312b)
Downloaded from http://podshot.github.io/MCEdit-Unified/