CVE-2014-4404
Apple OS X: Heap-Based Buffer Overflow
As of , CVE-2014-4404 in Apple OS X is on CISA's list of exploited vulnerabilities: CISA listed it on . Our patch-first group: Patch this week.
- Exploited
- Yes: CISA listed it on 10 February 2022
- US federal deadline
- 10 August 2022181 days after CISA listed it. US federal civilian agencies must fix it by then.
- Used in ransomware campaigns
- Not known to CISA
- EPSS score
- 0.49Higher than 98% of the CVEs EPSS scores. EPSS estimates the chance of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS when listed
- 0.52 on 10 February 2022EPSS on the day CISA listed it.
- Public exploit
- 1 Metasploit module and 1 Exploit-DB entry (1 verified)
- Fix
- No vendor link in CISA's entry
What CISA says to do
Apply updates per vendor instructions.
CISA's required action
What the flaw is
Heap-based buffer overflow in IOHIDFamily in Apple OS X, which affects, iOS before 8 and Apple TV before 7, allows attackers to execute arbitrary code in a privileged context.
CISA's description
Heap-based buffer overflow in IOHIDFamily in Apple iOS before 8 and Apple TV before 7 allows attackers to execute arbitrary code in a privileged context via an application that provides crafted key-mapping properties.
The CVE record's description, from apple
- CVE published
- 18 September 2014
- Assigned by
- apple
- CVSS
- 7.8 High (CVSS 3.1, from CISA-ADP)
- CWE-787
- Out-of-bounds Write
- CWE-119
- Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer
- CISA SSVC, exploitation
- active
- CISA SSVC, automatable
- no
- CISA SSVC, technical impact
- total
Timeline
- The CVE record was published.
- Exploit-DB published an exploit (EDB-ID 35440).
- CISA added it to its list of exploited vulnerabilities.
- The US federal deadline to fix it.
Public exploits
Facts from Metasploit's module list and Exploit-DB's index; we never copy exploit code.
- Metasploit: Mac OS X IOKit Keyboard Driver Root Privilege Escalationexploit module, rank manual
- Exploit-DB: Apple Mac OSX - IOKit Keyboard Driver Privilege Escalation (Metasploit)EDB-ID 35440, verified by Exploit-DB, 2 December 2014
OS X: other exploited entries
| Vulnerability | Product | Our group | Listed | Deadline | EPSS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CVE-2015-1130Authentication Bypass | Apple OS X | Patch this weekMetasploit module; verified Exploit-DB entry | 0.10 |
Read further
- CVE recordcve.org
- NVD entrynvd.nist.gov
- CISA's catalogcisa.gov
- EPSS for this CVEapi.first.org