PT-2019-10772 · Macpaw · Cleanmymac X

Published 2019-01-10 · Updated 2022-06-07 · CVE-2018-4042

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

7.1

High

Base vector

AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:N

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Clean My Mac X version 4.04

Description A privilege escalation issue exists due to improper input validation in the helper service. An attacker with local access could exploit this to modify the file system as root.

Recommendations For version 4.04, consider disabling the helper service temporarily until a patch is available to prevent potential exploitation.

Fix

RCE

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-20

Related Identifiers

CVE-2018-4042

Affected Products

Cleanmymac X

References · 3

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-4042 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2018-4042 · Vendor Advisory
• https://talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2018-0716 · Note