Medium severity5.5NVD Advisory· Published Jan 10, 2019· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2018-4042
CVE-2018-4042
Description
An exploitable privilege escalation vulnerability exists in the helper service of Clean My Mac X, version 4.04, due to improper input validation. An attacker with local access could exploit this vulnerability to modify the file system as root.
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Affected products
1- Range: = 4.04
Patches
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References
1- www.talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2018-0716nvdThird Party Advisory
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