CVE-2016-4678

high

Description

An issue was discovered in certain Apple products. macOS before 10.12.1 is affected. The issue involves the "AppleSMC" component. It allows local users to gain privileges or cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference) via unspecified vectors.

References

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93852

http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037086

https://support.apple.com/HT207275

Details

Source: MITRE

Published: 2017-02-20

Updated: 2017-07-29

Type: CWE-476

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.6

Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Impact Score: 6.4

Exploitability Score: 3.9

Severity: MEDIUM

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Impact Score: 5.9

Exploitability Score: 1.8

Severity: HIGH