CVE-2015-3692

medium
Published 2015-07-03 · Modified 2026-05-06
CVSS v3
CVSS v2
6.8
VIR risk
6.8

Description

Apple Mac EFI before 2015-001, as used in OS X before 10.10.4 and other products, does not enforce a locking protection mechanism upon being woken from sleep, which allows local users to conduct EFI flash attacks by leveraging root privileges.

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/HT204942

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: product-security@apple.com — http://support.apple.com/kb/HT204934

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: product-security@apple.com — http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2015/Jun/msg00003.html

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: product-security@apple.com — http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2015/Jun/msg00002.html

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
macos macosaffected

References

CWEs

CWE-284

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