CVE-2018-4033

MEDIUM 5.5CVE-2018-4033 · Published 10/01/2019 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2018-4033 is a MEDIUM (CVSS 5.5) vulnerability affecting cleanmymac x (macpaw).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 0.31%, higher than 23.8% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
cleanmymac x macpaw	`= 4.04`	No fix yet

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 file system as root.

References

talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2018-0706 · Third Party Advisory

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Package

Affected versions

Patched versions

cleanmymac x

macpaw

= 4.04

No fix yet

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