CVE-2014-4489

Iphone Os vulnerability

CVSS

10.0

EPSS

3.2%

EPSS pct

87th

Exploited

No known

IOHIDFamily in Apple iOS before 8.1.3, Apple OS X before 10.10.2, and Apple TV before 7.0.3 does not properly initialize event queues, which allows attackers to execute arbitrary code in a privileged context or cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference) via a crafted app.

Affected vendor

Apple

Affected product

Iphone Os

CVSS vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Published

2015-01-30

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low attack complexity, requiring no authentication. Successful exploitation leads to complete impact to confidentiality, complete impact to integrity, complete impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 3.2% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 87% of all scored CVEs.

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