CVE-2017-7158

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Published 2017-12-27 · Modified 2026-05-13

CVSS v3

6.5

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

CVSS v2

6.8

VIR risk

6.5

Description

An issue was discovered in certain Apple products. macOS before 10.13.2 is affected. The issue involves the "Screen Sharing Server" component. It allows attackers to obtain root privileges for reading files by leveraging screen-sharing access.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

75%

Patch ETA

—

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: product-security@apple.com — https://support.apple.com/HT208331

OS impact

OS	Version	Status	Fixed in
macos		affected	`10.13.2`

References

https://support.apple.com/HT208331
https://support.apple.com/HT208331

CWEs

CWE-119

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