How severe is CVE-2015-1130?

CVE-2015-1130 has a CVSS 3.1 base score of 7.8 (HIGH). EPSS estimates a 9.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days. It is listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog.

CVE-2015-1130: Apple OS X Authentication Bypass Vulnerability

CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities

Apple OS X Authentication Bypass 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
Apply updates per vendor instructions.

CISA notes
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-1130

Description

The XPC implementation in Admin Framework in Apple OS X before 10.10.3 allows local users to bypass authentication and obtain admin privileges via unspecified vectors.

Severity

CVSS 3.1 · CISA7.8 HIGH

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

SSVC · CISA-ADP

Exploitationactive

Automatableno

Technical impacttotal

Affected Products

Vendor	Product	Affected versions
-	-	n/a

References

6 Links

Vendor advisories

APPLE-SA-2015-04-08-2

Exploits & PoCs

36692

Vulnerability databases

Other references

https://support.apple.com/HT204659

Record Details

Published

2015-04-10

Last updated

2025-10-22

Assigner (CNA)

apple

Credited to

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