CVE-2015-5849: Apple Mac OS X

Medium severity, CVSS 6.8. EPSS: 1.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The filtering implementation in AppleEvents in Apple OS X before 10.11 mishandles attempts to send events to a different user, which allows attackers to bypass intended access restrictions by leveraging a screen-sharing connection.

Affected products

• Apple Mac OS X: up to and including 10.10.5

Published 2015-10-09. Last modified 2026-06-17.