PT-2014-5918 · Apple · Os X

Landon Fuller · Published 2014-11-18 · Updated 2017-08-29 · CVE-2014-4458

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

5.0

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Apple OS X versions prior to 10.10.1

Description The issue concerns the "System Profiler About This Mac" component, which includes extraneous cookie data in system-model requests. This might allow remote attackers to obtain sensitive information via unspecified vectors.

Recommendations For Apple OS X versions prior to 10.10.1, update to version 10.10.1 or later to resolve the issue.

Fix

Information Disclosure

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-200

Related Identifiers

CVE-2014-4458

Affected Products

Os X

References · 8

• https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT6591 · Vendor Advisory
• http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2014/Nov/msg00001.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-4458 · Security Note
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/98785 · Note
• http://securitytracker.com/id/1031230 · Note
• http://secunia.com/advisories/62503 · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/71139 · Note
• https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204419 · Note