CVE-2015-6980

published 2016-01-11

CVE-2015-6980: 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.

Priority P3 37 high 7.8 CVSS 3.0

AV L AC L PR L UI N S U C H I H A H

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

2 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
apple	mac_os_x	<= 10.11.0	—
apple	os_x_el_capitan_10.11.1_security_update_2015-004_yosemite_and_security_update_20	—	—

CVSS provenance

nvd v3.0 7.8 HIGH CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

nvd v2.0 7.2 HIGH AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

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