CVE-2014-4461: Apple iPhone OS

High severity, CVSS 9.3. EPSS: 3.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The kernel in Apple iOS before 8.1.1 and Apple TV before 7.0.2 does not properly validate IOSharedDataQueue object metadata, which allows attackers to execute arbitrary code in a privileged context via a crafted application.

Affected products

• Apple iPhone OS: up to and including 8.1; version 8.0 only; version 8.0.1 only; version 8.0.2 only
• Apple Mac OS X: up to and including 10.10.1; version 10.8.5 only; version 10.9.5 only; version 10.10.0 only
• Apple tvOS: up to and including 7.0.1; version 6.0 only; version 6.0.1 only; version 6.0.2 only; version 6.1 only; version 6.1.1 only; …

Published 2014-11-18. Last modified 2026-06-17.