Known exploited vulnerability

CVE-2015-1130

Apple OS X Authentication Bypass Vulnerability

What is affected

Vendor Apple
Product OS X
Weakness CWE-254

The vulnerability

The XPC implementation in Admin Framework in Apple OS X before 10.10.3 allows local users to bypass authentication and obtain admin privileges.

Required action

Apply updates per vendor instructions.

US federal civilian agencies were required to act by 10 August 2022 under BOD 22-01. The deadline is a compliance date, not a measure of severity — it says nothing about how dangerous the flaw is to anyone else.

Where this comes from

Every field on this page is taken from the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog, last synced 11 Nov 2026, 21:30. Nothing here is our own assessment. For the technical scoring, see the NVD record below.

NVD record ↗ CVE.org record ↗

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