CVE-2014-8835: Apple Mac OS X

High severity, CVSS 9.3. EPSS: 8.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The xpc_data_get_bytes function in libxpc in Apple OS X before 10.10.2 does not verify that a dictionary's Attributes key has the xpc_data data type, which allows attackers to execute arbitrary code by providing a crafted dictionary to sysmond, related to an "XPC type confusion" issue.

Affected products

• Apple Mac OS X: version 10.10.0 only; version 10.10.1 only

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