How severe is CVE-2014-4404?

CVE-2014-4404 has a CVSS 3.1 base score of 7.8 (HIGH). EPSS estimates a 48.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days. It is listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog.

CVE-2014-4404: Apple OS X Heap-Based Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities

Apple OS X Heap-Based Buffer Overflow Vulnerability is confirmed as actively exploited and is listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

Added to KEV

2022-02-10

Remediation due

2022-08-10

Required action
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CISA notes
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-4404

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in IOHIDFamily in Apple iOS before 8 and Apple TV before 7 allows attackers to execute arbitrary code in a privileged context via an application that provides crafted key-mapping properties.

Severity

CVSS 3.1 · CISA7.8 HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

SSVC · CISA-ADP

Exploitationactive

Automatableno

Technical impacttotal

Exploitation Context

as of October 14, 2026

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CISA added CVE-2014-4404 to the KEV catalog 2,702 days after its CVE record was published.
It is one of 95 Apple entries in the CISA KEV catalog, and one of 26 added in 2022.
Its current EPSS score (48.9%) is higher than that of 49% of CISA KEV entries.

Affected Products

Vendor	Product	Affected versions
-	-	n/a

References

12 Links

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Record Details

Published

2014-09-18

Last updated

2025-10-22

Assigner (CNA)

apple

Credited to

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