CVE-2014-4458

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2014-11-18 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-200

Description

The "System Profiler About This Mac" component in Apple OS X before 10.10.1 includes extraneous cookie data in system-model requests, which might allow remote attackers to obtain sensitive information via unspecified vectors.

Affected products

macOS: through 10.10.0; 10.0, 10.0.0, 10.0.1, 10.0.2, 10.0.3, 10.0.4 (+79)

References

http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2014/Nov/msg00001.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/62503
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/71139
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1031230
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/98785
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204419
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT6591
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2014/Nov/msg00001.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/62503
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/71139
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1031230
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/98785

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