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CVE-2014-8823

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.7 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2015-01-30 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-264

Description

The IOUSBControllerUserClient::ReadRegister function in the IOUSB controller in IOUSBFamily in Apple OS X before 10.10.2 allows local users to read data from arbitrary kernel-memory locations by leveraging root access and providing a crafted first argument.

Affected products

• macOS: through 10.10.1

References

• http://code.google.com/p/google-security-research/issues/detail?id=21
• http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2015/Jan/msg00003.html
• http://support.apple.com/HT204244
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1031650
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/100514
• http://code.google.com/p/google-security-research/issues/detail?id=21
• http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2015/Jan/msg00003.html
• http://support.apple.com/HT204244
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1031650
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/100514

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