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

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

Affected Products

Vendor	Product	Affected versions
-	-	n/a

References

12 Links

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Vulnerability databases

Other references

Record Details

Published

2014-09-18

Last updated

2025-10-22

Assigner (CNA)

apple

Credited to

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