---
id: 4346
title: "CCleaner Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability on macOS"
source_domain: blog.quarkslab.com
source_url: "https://blog.quarkslab.com/ccleaner_lpe_macos.html"
published_at: "2025-03-24 23:00"
tags: ["privilege-escalation", "macos", "vulnerability", "pentest", "ccleaner", "ipc"]
phying_url: "https://phying.com/item/4346"
lang: en
---

# CCleaner Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability on macOS

## Summary

Quarkslab's technical exploration of a trivial Local Privilege Escalation in CCleaner for macOS via its Privileged Helper Tool and IPC mechanism; newer builds are fixed after a revamp.

## Intelligence Metadata

- **Sources:** blog.quarkslab.com
- **Published:** 2025-03-24 23:00
- **Original:** https://blog.quarkslab.com/ccleaner_lpe_macos.html
- **Phying News:** https://phying.com/item/4346