Vulnerability in Apple Mac OS X

CVE-2015-5914

The EFI component in Apple OS X before 10.11 allows physically proximate attackers to modify firmware during the EFI update process by inserting an Apple Ethernet Thunderbolt adapter with crafted code in an Option ROM, aka a "Thunderstrike" issue. NOTE: this issue exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2014-4498.

EPSS: 0.004 (27.8th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

Apple Mac_os_x
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-17

References

product-security@apple.com (vdb-entry, x_refsource_SECTRACK)
product-security@apple.com (x_refsource_MISC)
product-security@apple.com (vendor-advisory, x_refsource_APPLE, Vendor Advisory)
product-security@apple.com (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Vendor Advisory)