Medium severity5.5NVD Advisory· Published Jan 10, 2019· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2018-4043
CVE-2018-4043
Description
An exploitable privilege escalation vulnerability exists in the Clean My Mac X, version 4.04, helper service due to improper input validation. A user with local access can use this vulnerability to modify the file system as root. An attacker would need local access to the machine for a successful exploit.
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Affected products
1- Range: = 4.04
Patches
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References
1- www.talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2018-0717nvdExploitThird Party Advisory
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