CVE-2018-4050 — An exploitable local privilege escalation vulnerability exists in the privileged helper tool of GOG Galaxy's Games, version 1.2.47 for macOS

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HIGH

An exploitable local privilege escalation vulnerability exists in the privileged helper tool of GOG Galaxy's Games, version 1.2.47 for macOS

Published Apr 1, 2019

7.8

HIGH

CVSS 3.1

EPSS 0.35%

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 adjust folder permissions leading to execution of arbitrary code with elevated privileges.

Affected products

Vendor Talos Product GOG Galaxy Default
n/a
- Version
  Gog Galaxy 1.2.47 (macOS)
  Status
  affected
  Constraints
  -

Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor

Product

Default status

Versions

Talos

GOG Galaxy

n/a

Version	Status	Constraints
Gog Galaxy 1.2.47 (macOS)	affected	-

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Metrics

0.35% 0.00353

Estimated probability of exploitation in the wild in the next 30 days (FIRST EPSS). As of Oct 1, 2026.

EPSS probability 0.00353

Score over time

2021–2026

EPSS v1
EPSS v5
EPSS v2
EPSS v3

Percentile over time

EPSS v1
EPSS v5
EPSS v2
EPSS v3

Table of values (8 key points)

Flat stretches are collapsed; showing up to 120 newest points.

Date	Score	Percentile	Model
Oct 1, 2026	0.35% (0.00353)	26.58th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Sep 20, 2026	0.35% (0.00353)	29.00th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Jul 20, 2024	0.04% (0.00042)	5.06th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 7, 2023	0.04% (0.00042)	5.63th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 6, 2023	1.04% (0.01036)	43.31th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Feb 4, 2022	1.04% (0.01036)	20.62th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Feb 3, 2022	0.39% (0.00389)	3.39th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Apr 14, 2021	0.39% (0.00389)	0.00th	v1