CVEvulnerability
CVE-2015-5914
4.7 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2015-10-09
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.7 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:C/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-17
Description
The EFI component in Apple OS X before 10.11 allows physically proximate attackers to modify firmware during the EFI update process by inserting an Apple Ethernet Thunderbolt adapter with crafted code in an Option ROM, aka a "Thunderstrike" issue. NOTE: this issue exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2014-4498.
Affected configurations
• apple mac os x (<= 10.10.5)
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2015/Sep/msg00008.html Vendor Advisory
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1033703 www.securitytracker.com
- https://support.apple.com/HT205267 Vendor Advisory
- https://trmm.net/Thunderstrike_FAQ trmm.net
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2015/Sep/msg00008.html Vendor Advisory
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1033703 www.securitytracker.com
- https://support.apple.com/HT205267 Vendor Advisory
- https://trmm.net/Thunderstrike_FAQ trmm.net