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FKIE_CVE-2018-4043

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2019-01-10 15:29 - Updated: 2026-06-17 01:58

Severity

5.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Summary

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.

References

	URL	Tags
	talos-cna@cisco.com	https://www.talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2018-0717	Exploit, Third Party Advisory
	af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	https://www.talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2018-0717	Exploit, Third Party Advisory

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	macpaw	cleanmymac_x	4.04

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  "lastModified": "2026-06-17T01:58:16.647",
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CVE-2018-4043 (GCVE-0-2018-4043)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2019-01-10 15:00 – Updated: 2024-08-05 05:04

Summary

Severity

7.1 (High)


                        
                          CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:N

CWE

Improper Input Validation

Assigner

talos mitre root

References

1 reference

URL	Tags
https://www.talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_r…	x_refsource_MISC

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
n/a	Clean My Mac	Affected: Clean My Mac X 4.04

Date Public

2019-01-10 00:00

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Sightings

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Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.

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