Vulnerability in Apple Mac OS X
CVE-2015-5849
The filtering implementation in AppleEvents in Apple OS X before 10.11 mishandles attempts to send events to a different user, which allows attackers to bypass intended access restrictions by leveraging a screen-sharing connection.
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 6.8 (Medium). Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.017 (75.8th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 76th percentile — 75.8% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.017 · newest: 0.017 · change: 0.000
Affected products
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- www.securitytracker.com/id/1033703 (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry)
- lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2015/Sep/msg00008.html (vendor-advisory, Vendor Advisory)
- support.apple.com/HT205267 (Vendor Advisory)