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CVE-2018-4036

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2019-01-10 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-20

Description

The CleanMyMac X software contains an exploitable privilege escalation vulnerability due to improper input validation. An attacker with local access could use this vulnerability to modify the running kernel extensions on the system.

Affected products

• Clean My Mac: 4.04

References

• https://www.talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2018-0709
• https://www.talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2018-0709

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