01 Record
CVE-2014-4438
Race condition in LoginWindow in Apple OS X before 10.10 allows physically proximate attackers to obtain access by leveraging an unattended workstation on which screen locking had been attempted.
UnratedPUBLISHEDCNA: apple
CNA base scoreUnratedNo CNA CVSS vector
02 Description
Race condition in LoginWindow in Apple OS X before 10.10 allows physically proximate attackers to obtain access by leveraging an unattended workstation on which screen locking had been attempted.
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 0.23% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 14.3% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- The NVD has published no score for this record
- NVD CVSS vector
- No NVD score to derive
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-17.
- Red Hat severity
- No Red Hat rating. Red Hat rates the CVEs that affect its products.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2014-10-18 01:00Z12 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-06 11:12Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2014-06-20
- Assigning CNA
- apple
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- CWE-362Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization ('Race Condition')Class
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- 5491ba0013df4b5278f4b8729873bb283ae49639a3f2b032acebd8903e7d4818
05 Affected products
VendorProductVersionsPlatforms
06 References
- www.securityfocus.com70622http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/70622
- archives.neohapsis.comAPPLE-SA-2014-10-16-1http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2014-10/0101.html
- www.securitytracker.com1031063http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1031063
- support.apple.comhttps://support.apple.com/kb/HT6535
- exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.commacosx-cve20144438-sec-bypass(97630)https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/97630