CVE-2014-4372 describes a local privilege escalation vulnerability in the syslogd component of Apple iOS before version 8 and Apple TV before version 7. An attacker can exploit this flaw via a symlink attack on an unspecified file, allowing them to change the permissions of arbitrary files. With a CVSS score of 3.6 (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P), this vulnerability has low attack complexity and requires local access, potentially leading to partial integrity and availability impacts. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage, indicating a low current threat level.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
<= 6.2CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:apple:tvos:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
6.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:apple:tvos:6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
6.0.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:apple:tvos:6.0.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
6.0.2CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:apple:tvos:6.0.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
6.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:apple:tvos:6.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P
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No media coverage found for this CVE.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.