CVE-2014-1381

critical
Published 2014-07-01 · Modified 2026-05-06
CVSS v3
CVSS v2
10.0
VIR risk
10.0

Description

Thunderbolt in Apple OS X before 10.9.4 does not properly restrict IOThunderBoltController API calls, which allows attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds memory access and application crash) via a crafted call.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: product-security@apple.com — http://support.apple.com/kb/HT6296

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
macos macos10.9affected
macos macos10.9.1affected
macos macos10.9.2affected
macos macos10.9.3affected

References

CWEs

CWE-264

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.