CVE-2017-7158: Apple Mac OS X

Medium severity, CVSS 6.5. EPSS: 1.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

An issue was discovered in certain Apple products. macOS before 10.13.2 is affected. The issue involves the "Screen Sharing Server" component. It allows attackers to obtain root privileges for reading files by leveraging screen-sharing access.

Affected products

• Apple Mac OS X: before 10.13.2 (fixed in 10.13.2)

Published 2017-12-27. Last modified 2026-06-17.