CVE-2015-5849

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2015-10-09 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-264

Description

The filtering implementation in AppleEvents in Apple OS X before 10.11 mishandles attempts to send events to a different user, which allows attackers to bypass intended access restrictions by leveraging a screen-sharing connection.

Affected products

macOS: through 10.10.5

References

http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2015/Sep/msg00008.html
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1033703
https://support.apple.com/HT205267
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2015/Sep/msg00008.html
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1033703
https://support.apple.com/HT205267

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