CVE-2015-5849

Severity

68%

Complexity

86%

Confidentiality

106%

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.

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.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 6.8. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: medium. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P).

Overview

First reported 9 years ago

2015-10-09 05:59:00

Last updated 8 years ago

2016-12-09 16:42:00

Affected Software

Apple Mac OS X

References

APPLE-SA-2015-09-30-3

Vendor Advisory

1033703

Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry

https://support.apple.com/HT205267

Vendor Advisory

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