CVE-2018-4041: Macpaw Cleanmymac X

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

An exploitable privilege escalation vulnerability exists in the helper service of Clean My Mac X, version 4.04, due to improper input validation. An attacker with local access could exploit this vulnerability to modify the file system as root.

Affected products

• Macpaw Cleanmymac X: version 4.04 only

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