CVE-2014-8833: Apple Mac OS X

Low severity, CVSS 2.1. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

SpotlightIndex in Apple OS X before 10.10.2 does not properly perform deserialization during access to a permission cache, which allows local users to read search results associated with other users' protected files via a Spotlight query.

Affected products

• Apple Mac OS X: up to and including 10.10.1

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