CVE-2015-6980: Apple Mac OS X

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Directory Utility in Apple OS X before 10.11.1 mishandles authentication for new sessions, which allows local users to gain privileges via unspecified vectors.

Affected products

• Apple Mac OS X: up to and including 10.11.0

Published 2016-01-11. Last modified 2026-06-17.