CVE-2026-2637 | THREATINT

Description

iBoysoft NTFS for Mac contains a local privilege escalation vulnerability in its privileged helper daemon ntfshelperd. The daemon exposes an NSConnection service that runs as root without implementing any authentication or authorization checks. This issue affects iBoysoft NTFS: 8.0.0.

PUBLISHED Reserved 2026-02-17 | Published 2026-03-03 | Updated 2026-03-03 | Assigner Fluid Attacks

HIGH: 8.5CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Problem types

CWE-732 Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource

Product status

Default status

unaffected

8.0.0

affected

Credits

Oscar Uribe finder

References

fluidattacks.com/advisories/cuarteto third-party-advisory

iboysoft.com/ntfs-for-mac/ product

cve.org (CVE-2026-2637)

nvd.nist.gov (CVE-2026-2637)

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