PT-2018-5594 · Apple · Apple Macos

Published 2018-04-03 · Updated 2019-10-03 · CVE-2017-13827

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

9.3

High

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: macOS versions prior to 10.13

Description: The issue involves the kext tools component, allowing attackers to execute arbitrary code in a privileged context via a crafted app that performs kext loading.

Recommendations: For macOS versions prior to 10.13, update to version 10.13 or later to resolve the issue.

Fix

Related Identifiers

CVE-2017-13827

Affected Products

Apple Macos

References · 3

• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2017-13827 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-13827 · Security Note
• https://support.apple.com/HT208144 · Vendor Advisory