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CVE-2018-4051

• 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: 2019-04-02 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-732

Description

An exploitable local privilege escalation vulnerability exists in the privileged helper tool of GOG Galaxy's Games, version 1.2.47 for macOS. An attacker can globally create directories and subdirectories on the root file system, as well as change the permissions of existing directories.

Affected products

• GOG.COM GOG Galaxy: 1.2.47

References

• https://www.talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2018-0725
• https://www.talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2018-0725

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