Thunderstrike: EFI Firmware Vulnerability in Apple OS X

CVE-2015-5914 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:L/AC:M/AU:N/C:N/I:C/A:N

The EFI component in Apple OS X before 10.11 allows physically proximate attackers to modify firmware during the EFI update process by inserting an Apple Ethernet Thunderbolt adapter with crafted code in an Option ROM, aka a "Thunderstrike" issue. NOTE: this issue exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2014-4498.

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