| Vulnerability Name: | CVE-2014-8817 (CCN-100496) | ||||||||
| Assigned: | 2014-11-14 | ||||||||
| Published: | 2015-01-27 | ||||||||
| Updated: | 2017-09-08 | ||||||||
| Summary: | coresymbolicationd in CoreSymbolication in Apple OS X before 10.10.2 does not verify that expected data types are present in XPC messages, which allows attackers to execute arbitrary code in a privileged context via a crafted app, as demonstrated by lack of verification of xpc_dictionary_get_value API return values during handling of a (1) match_mmap_archives, (2) delete_mmap_archives, (3) write_mmap_archive, or (4) read_mmap_archive command. | ||||||||
| CVSS v3 Severity: | 9.3 Critical (CCN CVSS v3.1 Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H)
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| CVSS v2 Severity: | 10.0 High (CVSS v2 Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C) 7.4 High (Temporal CVSS v2 Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C/E:U/RL:OF/RC:C)
5.3 Medium (CCN Temporal CVSS v2 Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C/E:U/RL:OF/RC:C)
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| Vulnerability Type: | CWE-19 | ||||||||
| Vulnerability Consequences: | Gain Privileges | ||||||||
| References: | Source: MITRE Type: CNA CVE-2014-8817 Source: APPLE Type: Vendor Advisory APPLE-SA-2015-01-27-4 Source: CCN Type: Apple Web site About the security content of OS X Yosemite v10.10.2 and Security Update 2015-001 Source: CONFIRM Type: Vendor Advisory http://support.apple.com/HT204244 Source: SECTRACK Type: UNKNOWN 1031650 Source: MISC Type: Exploit https://code.google.com/p/google-security-research/issues/detail?id=80 Source: XF Type: UNKNOWN macosx-cve20148817-priv-esc(100496) Source: XF Type: UNKNOWN macosx-cve20148817-priv-esc(100496) | ||||||||
| Vulnerable Configuration: | Configuration 1: Configuration CCN 1:  Denotes that component is vulnerable | ||||||||
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