CVE-2015-7078
high
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
8.2
Description
Use-after-free vulnerability in Hypervisor in Apple OS X before 10.11.2 allows local users to gain privileges via vectors involving VM objects.
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.
The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.
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Exploits
Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.
Exploit-DB
Apple Mac OSX Kernel - Hypervisor Driver Use-After-Free
Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.
OS impact
macOS Affected 1 release
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| — | Affected | — |
References
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2015/Dec/msg00005.html
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034344
- https://support.apple.com/HT205637
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/39370/
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2015/Dec/msg00005.html
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034344
- https://support.apple.com/HT205637
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/39370/
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.