VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2014-4453

medium
Published 2014-11-18 · Modified 2026-05-06
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CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
5.0

Description

Apple iOS before 8.1.1 and OS X before 10.10.1 include location data during establishment of a Spotlight Suggestions server connection by Spotlight or Safari, which might allow remote attackers to obtain sensitive information via unspecified vectors.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact
OSVersionStatusFixed in
macos macosaffected
macos macos8.0affected
macos macos8.0.1affected
macos macos8.0.2affected
macos macos10.0affected
macos macos10.0.0affected
macos macos10.0.1affected
macos macos10.0.2affected
macos macos10.0.3affected
macos macos10.0.4affected
macos macos10.1affected
macos macos10.1.0affected
macos macos10.1.1affected
macos macos10.1.2affected
macos macos10.1.3affected
macos macos10.1.4affected
macos macos10.1.5affected
macos macos10.2affected
macos macos10.2.0affected
macos macos10.2.1affected
macos macos10.2.2affected
macos macos10.2.3affected
macos macos10.2.4affected
macos macos10.2.5affected
macos macos10.2.6affected
macos macos10.2.7affected
macos macos10.2.8affected
macos macos10.3affected
macos macos10.3.0affected
macos macos10.3.1affected
macos macos10.3.2affected
macos macos10.3.3affected
macos macos10.3.4affected
macos macos10.3.5affected
macos macos10.3.6affected
macos macos10.3.7affected
macos macos10.3.8affected
macos macos10.3.9affected
macos macos10.4affected
macos macos10.4.0affected
macos macos10.4.1affected
macos macos10.4.2affected
macos macos10.4.3affected
macos macos10.4.4affected
macos macos10.4.5affected
macos macos10.4.6affected
macos macos10.4.7affected
macos macos10.4.8affected
macos macos10.4.9affected
macos macos10.4.10affected
macos macos10.4.11affected
macos macos10.5affected
macos macos10.5.0affected
macos macos10.5.1affected
macos macos10.5.2affected
macos macos10.5.3affected
macos macos10.5.4affected
macos macos10.5.5affected
macos macos10.5.6affected
macos macos10.5.7affected
macos macos10.5.8affected
macos macos10.6.0affected
macos macos10.6.1affected
macos macos10.6.2affected
macos macos10.6.3affected
macos macos10.6.4affected
macos macos10.6.5affected
macos macos10.6.6affected
macos macos10.6.7affected
macos macos10.6.8affected
macos macos10.7.0affected
macos macos10.7.1affected
macos macos10.7.2affected
macos macos10.7.3affected
macos macos10.7.4affected
macos macos10.7.5affected
macos macos10.8.0affected
macos macos10.8.1affected
macos macos10.8.2affected
macos macos10.8.3affected
macos macos10.8.4affected
macos macos10.8.5affected
macos macos10.9affected
macos macos10.9.1affected
macos macos10.9.2affected
macos macos10.9.3affected
macos macos10.9.4affected
macos macos10.9.5affected

References

CWEs

CWE-200

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

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