Medium severity5.5NVD Advisory· Published Apr 3, 2019· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2018-4178

Description

A permissions issue existed in which execute permission was incorrectly granted. This issue was addressed with improved permission validation. This issue affected versions prior to macOS High Sierra 10.13.4.

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Affected products

Apple Inc./macOSv5
Range: Versions prior to: macOS High Sierra 10.13.4
Apple Inc./Mac OS X
cpe:2.3:o:apple:mac_os_x:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Range: <10.13.4
Apple Inc./macOS High Sierrallm-fuzzy
Range: <10.13.4

Patches

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References

support.apple.com/kb/HT208937nvdVendor Advisory

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