CVE-2014-4404
High 7.8 Exploited in the wild (KEV)
Confirmed active exploitation — CISA KEV catalog
- Name
- Apple OS X Heap-Based Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
- Added to catalog
- Remediation due date (US federal)
- Required action
- Apply updates per vendor instructions.
Description
Heap-based buffer overflow in IOHIDFamily in Apple iOS before 8 and Apple TV before 7 allows attackers to execute arbitrary code in a privileged context via an application that provides crafted key-mapping properties.
Metrics
- CVSS 3.1
-
7.8 (HIGH)
Score source: NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H - EPSS — exploit probability
- 49% (percentile: 99) as of 1 November 2026
- CWE
- CWE-787
Affected products
apple: iphone os; apple: mac os x; apple: tvos
References
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2015/Apr/msg00001.html Mailing ListVendor Advisory
- http://support.apple.com/kb/HT6441 Vendor Advisory
- http://support.apple.com/kb/HT6442 Vendor Advisory
- https://support.apple.com/HT204659 Vendor Advisory
- https://support.apple.com/kb/HT6535 Vendor Advisory
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2015/Apr/msg00001.html Mailing ListVendor Advisory
- http://support.apple.com/kb/HT6441 Vendor Advisory
- http://support.apple.com/kb/HT6442 Vendor Advisory
- https://support.apple.com/HT204659 Vendor Advisory
- https://support.apple.com/kb/HT6535 Vendor Advisory