CVE-2018-4055: Pixar Renderman

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A local privilege escalation vulnerability exists in the install helper tool of the Mac OS X version of Pixar Renderman, version 22.2.0. A user with local access can use this vulnerability to read any root file from the file system. An attacker would need local access to the machine to successfully exploit this flaw.

Affected products

• Pixar Renderman: version 22.2.0 only

Published 2019-03-08. Last modified 2026-06-17.