CVE-2015-3692

MediumCVSS 6.8/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

Description

Apple Mac EFI before 2015-001, as used in OS X before 10.10.4 and other products, does not enforce a locking protection mechanism upon being woken from sleep, which allows local users to conduct EFI flash attacks by leveraging root privileges.

Metrics

CVSS 2.0 6.8/10AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C

Weakness enumeration

CWE-284

Affected software

VendorProductVersions
n/an/an/a

References

Timeline

Published
Jul 3, 2015
Last modified
Jun 17, 2026
NVD status
Modified

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CVE-2015-3692: Medium severity, CVSS 6.8 | Vulnix