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CVE-2018-4037

• 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 can use this vulnerability to modify the file system as root.

Affected products

• Clean My Mac: 4.04

References

• https://www.talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2018-0710
• https://www.talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2018-0710

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