CVE-2026-18367 (GCVE-0-2026-18367)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2026-08-06 20:30
Modified
2026-08-07 13:29
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VLAI Severity ?
EPSS score ?
CWE
- CWE-285 - The product does not perform or incorrectly performs an authorization check when an actor attempts to access a resource or perform an action.
Summary
A privilege escalation vulnerability allows local users to execute arbitrary code as root via Sophos Endpoint for macOS older than version 2026.1.1 and Sophos Home for macOS older than version 10.11.6.
References
Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sophos | Sophos Endpoint for macOS |
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