{"id":"CVE-2018-4051","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2018-4051","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T19:05:44.753Z","title":"An exploitable local privilege escalation vulnerability exists in the privileged helper tool of GOG Galaxy's Games, version 1.2.47 for macOS.","description":"An exploitable local privilege escalation vulnerability exists in the privileged helper tool of GOG Galaxy's Games, version 1.2.47 for macOS. An attacker can globally create directories and subdirectories on the root file system, as well as change the permissions of existing directories.","published":"2019-04-02T16:29:00.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T01:58:18.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"talos-cna@cisco.com","cvss":{"version":"3.1","score":5.5,"severity":"MEDIUM","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N"},"cwe":["CWE-732"],"affected":["gog/galaxy"],"epss":{"score":0.00278,"percentile":0.20099,"date":"2026-10-27","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"low","text":"Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.28%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://www.talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2018-0725","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"talos-cna@cisco.com"},{"url":"https://www.talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2018-0725","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-4051","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}