CVE-2014-8835

critical

Published 2015-01-30 · Modified 2026-05-06

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

10.0

Description

The xpc_data_get_bytes function in libxpc in Apple OS X before 10.10.2 does not verify that a dictionary's Attributes key has the xpc_data data type, which allows attackers to execute arbitrary code by providing a crafted dictionary to sysmond, related to an "XPC type confusion" issue.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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Exploits

Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.

Exploit-DB

EDB-35742 local osx

Google Security Research · 2015-01-10

Apple Mac OSX 10.9.x - sysmond XPC Privilege Escalation

Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.

OS impact

macOS Affected 2 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
10.10.1	Affected	—
10.10.0	Affected	—

References

CWEs

CWE-19

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.