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CVE-2015-5897

15
FAUCET Score

CVE-2015-5897 is a local privilege escalation vulnerability affecting Apple OS X before version 10.11, allowing attackers to inject code into Address Book framework processes via an environment variable. With a CVSS score of 4.6 (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P), it requires local access and low attack complexity, potentially leading to compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, nor are public exploit codes like Metasploit or Nuclei available. While it has received minimal community discussion, it is not on the KEV catalog or Hot List, and has no media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 10.10.5CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:apple:mac_os_x:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

4.6MEDIUM

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

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
LOCAL
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
6.4
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.35%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
27.3%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0035 is in the 41st percentile among its peer group of 3,052 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

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

Vendor Patches (1)

applevendor investigatingvia nvd_reference
View patch

References

lists.apple.com / archives/security-announce/2015/Sep/msg00008.html
Vendor Advisory
support.apple.com / HT205267
Vendor Advisory
securitytracker.com / id/1033703