CVE-2015-3692 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

Apple Mac EFI before 2015-001, as used in OS X before 10.10.4 and other products, does not enforce a locking protection mechanism upon being woken from sleep, which allows local users to conduct EFI flash attacks by leveraging root privileges.

Published: 2015-07-03

Score: 6.8 Medium

EPSS: < 1% Very Low

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions

n/a

n/a

affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:o:apple:mac_os_x:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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Remediation

No vendor fix or workaround currently provided.

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Tracking

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2015-3728	Apple Mac EFI before 2015-001, as used in OS X before 10.10.4 and other products, does not enforce a locking protection mechanism upon being woken from sleep, which allows local users to conduct EFI flash attacks by leveraging root privileges.

No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

No CVSS v3.0

Access Vector Local

Access Complexity Low

Authentication Single

Confidentiality Impact Complete

Integrity Impact Complete

Availability Impact Complete

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00037.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

Link	Providers
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2015/Jun/msg00002.html
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2015/Jun/msg00003.html
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT204934
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT204942
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/75495
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1032444

History

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Subscriptions

Apple Mac Os X

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: apple

Published: 2015-07-03T01:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2024-08-06T05:56:14.813Z

Reserved: 2015-05-07T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2015-3692

Vulnrichment

No data.

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2015-07-03T01:59:46.900

Modified: 2026-05-06T22:30:45.220

Link: CVE-2015-3692

Redhat

No data.

OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses

CWE-284

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