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CVE-2018-4456

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2018-4456 is a memory corruption vulnerability in macOS, specifically affecting versions prior to macOS High Sierra 10.13.6 and macOS Mojave 10.14. It was addressed by Apple through improved input validation. This vulnerability carries a high CVSS score of 7.8, indicating a significant risk, and could lead to high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability if exploited. While there is no known active exploitation or publicly available exploit code in Metasploit, Nuclei, or ExploitDB, the vulnerability has garnered some community discussion and media coverage, including a SecurityWeek article detailing privilege escalation flaws in Apple's IntelHD5000 Kernel Extension.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 10.13.6CPE 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
1.10%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
62.3%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0110 is in the 60th percentile among its peer group of 11,621 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

seclists.org / fulldisclosure/2019/May/20
seclists.org / bugtraq/2019/May/27
support.apple.com / kb/HT208937
Vendor Advisory
support.apple.com / kb/HT209139
Vendor Advisory
support.apple.com / kb/HT209341
Vendor Advisory
support.apple.com / kb/HT210119