CVEvulnerability

CVE-2018-4041

5.5 MEDIUM Published 2019-01-10 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2019-01-10
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
7.1 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:N
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
4.9 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:C/A:N
Weaknesses
CWE-20

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.

Affected configurations

• macpaw cleanmymac x 4.04

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-20 Improper Input Validation weakness

References