CVE-2017-2418

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Published 2017-04-02 · Modified 2026-05-13

CVSS v3

6.5

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N

VIR risk

6.5

Description

An issue was discovered in certain Apple products. macOS before 10.12.4 is affected. The issue involves the "Hypervisor" component. It allows guest OS users to obtain sensitive information from the CR8 control register via unspecified vectors.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

65%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No vendor mitigations ingested yet for this CVE. The mitigation-content worker queues fetches as references arrive — check back in a few minutes, or see the references list below.

OS impact

OS	Version	Status	Fixed in
macos		affected

References

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97140
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1038138
https://support.apple.com/HT207615
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97140
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1038138
https://support.apple.com/HT207615

CWEs

CWE-200

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