Vulnerability in Apple Mac OS X

CVE-2018-4229

An issue was discovered in certain Apple products. macOS before 10.13.5 is affected. The issue involves the "Grand Central Dispatch" component. It allows attackers to bypass a sandbox protection mechanism by leveraging the misparsing of entitlement plists.

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CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 10.0 (Critical). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.020 (80.3th percentile), scored .

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 80th percentile — 80.3% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS trend (30 days)EPSS over the last 30 days for CVE-2018-4229: held from 0.021 to 0.020.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.021 · newest: 0.020 · change: -0.001

Affected products

Public proof-of-concept exploits

References

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2018-4229?
CVE-2018-4229 is a critical-severity vulnerability in Apple Mac OS X. CVSS score: 10.0/10. Published 2018-06-08.
How severe is CVE-2018-4229?
Critical severity. CVSS v3 base score is 10.0 out of 10.
Is CVE-2018-4229 known to be exploited?
1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.