CVE-2018-4258 is a critical buffer overflow vulnerability affecting macOS High Sierra versions prior to 10.13.5. This flaw, addressed by Apple with improved bounds checking, allows for unauthenticated remote code execution with full confidentiality, integrity, and availability impact, as indicated by its CVSS score of 9.8. Despite its high severity and significant community discussion (10 mentions), there is currently no public exploit code available in common repositories like Metasploit or ExploitDB, and it is not listed in CISA's KEV catalog.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
< 10.13.5CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:apple:mac_os_x:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.3 Bluesky, 0.3 Mastodon, and 2.4 GitHub mentions.
No media coverage found for this CVE.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.