CVE-2015-5897: Apple Mac OS X

Medium severity, CVSS 4.6. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The Address Book framework in Apple OS X before 10.11 allows local users to gain privileges by using an environment variable to inject code into processes that rely on this framework.

Affected products

• Apple Mac OS X: up to and including 10.10.5

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