Vulnerability in Apple Mac OS X
CVE-2015-3692
Apple Mac EFI before 2015-001, as used in OS X before 10.10.4 and other products, does not enforce a locking protection mechanism upon being woken from sleep, which allows local users to conduct EFI flash attacks by leveraging root privileges.
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 6.8 (Medium). Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.003 (21.2th percentile), scored .
Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 21st percentile — 21.2% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.003 · newest: 0.003 · change: 0.000
Affected products
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2015/Jun/msg00003.html (vendor-advisory, Vendor Advisory)
- lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2015/Jun/msg00002.html (vendor-advisory, Patch, Vendor Advisory)
- support.apple.com/kb/HT204942 (Vendor Advisory)
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/75495 (vdb-entry)
- www.securitytracker.com/id/1032444 (vdb-entry)
- support.apple.com/kb/HT204934 (Vendor Advisory)