CVE-2018-4229
An issue was discovered in certain Apple products. macOS before 10.13.5 is affected. The issue...
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.
Attack profile
How easy it is to exploit
- Attack vector
- Network
- Complexity
- Low
- Privileges needed
- None
- User interaction
- None
What an attacker can affect
- Confidentiality
- High
- Integrity
- High
- Availability
- High
Exploit likelihood
What each source reports
NVD Score used
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.
- Record
CVE-2018-4229- CVSS 3.0
- 10.0 Critical
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H - CVSS 2.0
- 10.0 High
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C - Updated
- 2026-11-02
CVE List No score
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.
- Record
CVE-2018-4229- Updated
- 2026-11-02
EUVDEUVD-2018-16015 No score
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.
- Record
EUVD-2018-16015- Updated
- 2026-11-03
GitHub AdvisoriesGHSA-6f5g-w37c-q96h
An issue was discovered in certain Apple products. macOS before 10.13.5 is affected. The issue...
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.
- Record
GHSA-6f5g-w37c-q96h- CVSS 3.0
- 10.0 Critical
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H - Updated
- 2026-11-02
Affected products
History
| Recorded | Changed | Sources |
|---|---|---|
| aliases | EUVD | |
| first indexed | CVE List, GitHub Advisories, NVD |
Dates are when Every CVE recorded each change. Upstream dates may differ.
In short
CVE-2018-4229 is a critical vulnerability (CVSS 10.0) in Apple Mac Os X, published June 8, 2018. No source lists public exploit code. EPSS puts the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days at 1.98%, the 80th percentile. No source names a fixed version.