7.8high

CVE-2018-40831 exploit

An issue was discovered in certain Apple products.

Published 8 y ago · modified 4 mo ago · JSON

CVSS
7.8
v3.0 · NVD
CISA KEV
No
not known exploited
EPSS
3.7%
percentile 90%
Public exploits
1
Exploit-DB

Summary

An issue was discovered in certain Apple products. macOS before 10.13.3 is affected. The issue involves the "Touch Bar Support" component. It allows attackers to execute arbitrary code in a privileged context or cause a denial of service (memory corruption) via a crafted app.

Exploit prediction (EPSS)

3.71% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 90% of all scored CVEs.

Exploits and detections

  • EDB-44007 macOS Kernel - Use-After-Free Due to Lack of Locking in 'AppleEmbeddedOSSupportHostClient::registerNotificationPort' · dos · 2018-02-09

CVSS scores

Assigned byVersionScoreVector
NVD3.07.8CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD2.09.3AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

References

Sources

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