Security Advisory

CVE-2015-5914

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2015-10-09 01:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-06 07:06:34
Assigner apple
State PUBLISHED

Description

The EFI component in Apple OS X before 10.11 allows physically proximate attackers to modify firmware during the EFI update process by inserting an Apple Ethernet Thunderbolt adapter with crafted code in an Option ROM, aka a "Thunderstrike" issue. NOTE: this issue exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2014-4498.