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CVE-2014-8832

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.9 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: none known
• Published: 2015-01-30 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-200

Description

The indexing functionality in Spotlight in Apple OS X before 10.10.2 writes memory contents to an external hard drive, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information by reading from this drive.

Affected products

• macOS: through 10.10.1

References

• 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/100528
• 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/100528

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