CVE-2014-8817: Apple Mac OS X

High severity, CVSS 10.0. EPSS: 2.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

coresymbolicationd in CoreSymbolication in Apple OS X before 10.10.2 does not verify that expected data types are present in XPC messages, which allows attackers to execute arbitrary code in a privileged context via a crafted app, as demonstrated by lack of verification of xpc_dictionary_get_value API return values during handling of a (1) match_mmap_archives, (2) delete_mmap_archives, (3) write_mmap_archive, or (4) read_mmap_archive command.

Affected products

• Apple Mac OS X: up to and including 10.10.1

Published 2015-01-30. Last modified 2026-06-17.