CyberRota Analysis
This is a high severity vulnerability with a CVSS score of 10.0. See the original NVD description below for full technical details.
CVE
CVE-2014-8817
Severity
HIGH
CVSS
10
EPSS
2.89%
Original NVD Description
coresymbolicationd in CoreSymbolication in Apple OS X before 10.10.2 does not verify that expected data types are present in XPC messages, which allows attackers to execute arbitrary code in a privileged context via a crafted app, as demonstrated by lack of verification of xpc_dictionary_get_value API return values during handling of a (1) match_mmap_archives, (2) delete_mmap_archives, (3) write_mmap_archive, or (4) read_mmap_archive command.