Apple Mac OS X IOBluetoothDevice Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

BID:72294

Info

Apple Mac OS X IOBluetoothDevice Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID: 72294
Class: Design Error
CVE:
Remote: No
Local: Yes
Published: Jan 21 2015 12:00AM
Updated: Jan 21 2015 12:00AM
Credit: Ian Beer of Google Project Zero
Vulnerable:
Not Vulnerable:

Discussion

Apple Mac OS X IOBluetoothDevice Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

Apple Mac OS X is prone to a local privilege-escalation vulnerability.

Local attackers may exploit this issue to execute arbitrary code with elevated privileges.

Exploit / POC

Apple Mac OS X IOBluetoothDevice Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

The following proof of concept code is available:

Solution / Fix

Apple Mac OS X IOBluetoothDevice Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

Solution:
Currently, we are not aware of any vendor-supplied patches. If you feel we are in error or are aware of more recent information, please mail us at: [email protected].

References

Apple Mac OS X IOBluetoothDevice Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

References:

© CVE.report 2026

Use of this information constitutes acceptance for use in an AS IS condition. There are NO warranties, implied or otherwise, with regard to this information or its use. Any use of this information is at the user's risk. It is the responsibility of user to evaluate the accuracy, completeness or usefulness of any information, opinion, advice or other content. EACH USER WILL BE SOLELY RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY consequences of his or her direct or indirect use of this web site. ALL WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND ARE EXPRESSLY DISCLAIMED. This site will NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT or any other kind of loss.

CVE, CWE, and OVAL are registred trademarks of The MITRE Corporation and the authoritative source of CVE content is MITRE's CVE web site. This site includes MITRE data granted under the following license.

Free CVE JSON API cve.report/api

CVE.report and Source URL Uptime Status status.cve.report