CVE-2018-4045

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

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 products

Clean My Mac: 4.04

References

https://www.talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2018-0719
https://www.talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2018-0719

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