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CVE-2017-6974

20
FAUCET Score

CVE-2017-6974 is a medium-severity vulnerability affecting macOS versions prior to 10.12.4. It allows an attacker to modify protected disk locations through a crafted application, bypassing System Integrity Protection. The attack requires user interaction (UI:R) and local access (AV:L), leading to a high impact on integrity (I:H) but no impact on confidentiality or availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
10.12.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:apple:mac_os_x:10.12.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

5.5MEDIUM

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

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
1.8
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.99%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
59.0%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0099 is in the 69th percentile among its peer group of 5,765 CVEs.

Social Chatter

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

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Vendor Patches (1)

applevendor investigatingvia nvd_reference
View patch

References

support.apple.com / HT207615
Vendor Advisory
securityfocus.com / bid/97140
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
securitytracker.com / id/1038138