7.1high

CVE-2018-4055

A local privilege escalation vulnerability exists in the install helper tool of the Mac OS X version of Pixar Renderman, version 22.2.0.

Published 7 y ago · modified 4 mo ago · JSON

CVSS
7.1
v3.0 · CNA
CISA KEV
No
not known exploited
EPSS
0.5%
percentile 44%
Public exploits
0
none known

Summary

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.

Exploit prediction (EPSS)

0.52% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 44% of all scored CVEs.

CVSS scores

Assigned byVersionScoreVector
CNA3.07.1CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N
NVD3.15.5CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CNA3.07.1CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N
NVD2.02.1AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Affected products

  • Talos Pixar Renderman

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-20 Improper Input Validation

References

Sources

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