CVE-2026-2637 PUBLISHED

Assigner: Fluid Attacks
Reserved: 17.02.2026 Published: 03.03.2026 Updated: 03.03.2026

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.

Metrics

CVSS 4.0

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

Exploitability Metrics		Vulnerable System Impact Metrics		Subsequent System Impact Metrics
Attack Vector	Local	Confidentiality	High	Confidentiality	None
Attack Complexity	Low	Integrity	High	Integrity	None
Attack Requirements	None	Availability	High	Availability	None
Privileges Required	Low
User Interaction	None

CVSS 4.0

Product Status

Vendor	iBoysoft
Product	iBoysoft NTFS
Versions	Default: unaffected Version 8.0.0 is affected

Credits

Oscar Uribe finder

References

Problem Types

CWE-732 Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource CWE

Impacts

CAPEC-233 Privilege Escalation