CVE-2026-2637

Summary

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.

Affected Software

VendorProductVersion RangeStatus
iBoysoftiBoysoft NTFS8.0.0affected

Weaknesses

  • CWE-732: CWE-732 Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource

ADP Enrichment

CISA ADP Vulnrichment

  • SSVC:
  • Exploitation: poc
    • Automatable: no
    • Technical Impact: total

References