CVE-2014-8832: Apple Mac OS X

Medium severity, CVSS 4.9. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The indexing functionality in Spotlight in Apple OS X before 10.10.2 writes memory contents to an external hard drive, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information by reading from this drive.

Affected products

• Apple Mac OS X: up to and including 10.10.1

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