CVE-2018-10171

CRITICAL 9.8CVE-2018-10171 · Published 05/06/2019 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2018-10171 is a CRITICAL (CVSS 9.8) vulnerability affecting mackeeper (kromtech).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 1.8%, higher than 78.1% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
mackeeper kromtech	`= 3.20.4`	No fix yet

Description

Kromtech MacKeeper 3.20.4 suffers from a root privilege escalation vulnerability through its `com.mackeeper.AdwareAnalyzer.AdwareAnalyzerPrivilegedHelper` component. The AdwareAnalzyerPrivilegedHelper tool implements an XPC service that allows an unprivileged application to connect and execute shell scripts as the root user.

References

versprite.com/advisories/mackeeper · Third Party Advisory

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