CVE-2015-5914

First published: Fri Oct 09 2015(Updated: )

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.

Credit: product-security@apple.com

Never miss a vulnerability like this again

Sign up to SecAlerts for real-time vulnerability data matched to your software, aggregated from hundreds of sources.

Read MoreStart Free Trial

• collector/nvd-index
• agent/references
• agent/severity
• agent/weakness
• agent/author
• agent/type
• agent/description
• agent/event
• agent/first-publish-date
• agent/softwarecombine
• agent/last-modified-date
• agent/tags
• collector/mitre-cve
• source/MITRE
• vendor/apple
• canonical/apple mac os x
• version/apple mac os x/10.10.5