CVE-2015-6980

Severity

72%

Complexity

39%

Confidentiality

165%

Directory Utility in Apple OS X before 10.11.1 mishandles authentication for new sessions, which allows local users to gain privileges via unspecified vectors.

Directory Utility in Apple OS X before 10.11.1 mishandles authentication for new sessions, which allows local users to gain privileges via unspecified vectors.

CVSS 3.0 Base Score 7.8. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H).

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 7.2. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C).

Overview

First reported 9 years ago

2016-01-11 11:59:00

Last updated 9 years ago

2016-01-12 01:29:00

Affected Software

Apple Mac OS X

References

APPLE-SA-2015-10-21-4

Vendor Advisory

https://support.apple.com/HT205375

Vendor Advisory

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