CVE-2018-4175

FAUCET Score

CVE-2018-4175 describes a code-signing bypass vulnerability in the LaunchServices component of macOS versions prior to 10.13.4, allowing attackers to execute crafted applications. This vulnerability carries a high CVSS score of 7.8, indicating a high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability, and requires user interaction (UI:R) for exploitation. While no public exploit code or active exploitation has been confirmed, it has garnered community discussion and media coverage, including a BleepingComputer article detailing its discovery.

Impacted Technologies

Vendor	Product	Version(s)	CPE
		< 10.13.4CPE matchmatch criteria	cpe:2.3:o:apple:mac_os_x::::::::

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

7.8HIGH

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

Attack Vector

LOCAL

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction

REQUIRED

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

HIGH

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

HIGH

Exploitability Score

1.8

Impact Score

5.9

CvssVersion

3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score

1.11%

Probability of exploitation in next 30 days

EPSS Percentile

62.6%

Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group

As of 2026-07-27

Model: v2026.06.15

This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0111 is in the 60th percentile among its peer group of 11,617 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Vendor Patches (1)

applevendor investigatingvia nvd_reference

View patch

References

support.apple.com / HT208692

Vendor Advisory

securityfocus.com / bid/103582

Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry

securitytracker.com / id/1040608

Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry