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CVE-2018-4035

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2018-4035 describes a privilege escalation vulnerability in CleanMyMac X, allowing a local attacker to modify the file system as root due to improper input validation. With a CVSS score of 5.5 (Medium), this vulnerability requires local access and low privileges, but does not necessitate user interaction. While there is no evidence of active exploitation, nor publicly available exploit code in Metasploit or ExploitDB, it has received minimal community discussion and media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
4.04CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:macpaw:cleanmymac_x:4.04:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

7.1HIGH

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:N

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
CHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
2.5
Impact Score
4.0
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.31%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
23.1%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0031 is in the 80th percentile among its peer group of 15,938 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

talosintelligence.com / vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2018-0708
Third Party Advisory