CVE-2018-4036: Macpaw Cleanmymac X

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The CleanMyMac X software contains an exploitable privilege escalation vulnerability due to improper input validation. An attacker with local access could use this vulnerability to modify the running kernel extensions on the system.

Affected products

• Macpaw Cleanmymac X: version 4.04 only

Published 2019-01-10. Last modified 2026-06-17.