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high 7.5

CVE-2014-4492 in the critical feed json

libnetcore in Apple iOS before 8.1.3, Apple OS X before 10.10.2, and Apple TV before 7.0.3 does not verify that certain values have the exp…

published 11y ago modified 4mo ago also EUVD-2014-4419

cvss
7.5
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
19.7%
EPSS 19.7% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 97%
public exploits
1
Exploit-DB

Summary

libnetcore in Apple iOS before 8.1.3, Apple OS X before 10.10.2, and Apple TV before 7.0.3 does not verify that certain values have the expected data type, which allows attackers to execute arbitrary code in an _networkd context via a crafted XPC message from a sandboxed app, as demonstrated by lack of verification of the XPC dictionary data type.

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Timeline

  1. First public exploit (EDB-35847)
  2. Published

Exploit prediction

19.73% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 97% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

Exploits and checks

  • EDB-35847 Apple Mac OSX networkd - 'effective_audit_token' XPC Type Confusion Sandbox Escape local, 2015-01-20
  • code.google.com https://code.google.com/p/google-security-research/issues/detail?id=92 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 7.5 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-19 Data Processing Errors

References

Sources

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