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CVE-2014-4446
Mail Service in Apple OS X Server before 4.0 does not enforce SACL changes until after a service restart, which allows remote…
- 2.1LowCVSS base score
- 1.4%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 27% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
Mail Service in Apple OS X Server before 4.0 does not enforce SACL changes until after a service restart, which allows remote authenticated users to bypass intended access restrictions in opportunistic circumstances by leveraging a change made by an administrator.
Timeline
ID reserved
By apple
- 4 months later
· 4 months later
Published
- 10 years later
· 10 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Low2.1 | AV:N/AC:H/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.4% · top 27% of all CVEs (10 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Low 2.1.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
4
- 1031071 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- APPLE-SA-2014-10-16-3 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_APPLEx_transferred
- macosx-cve20144446-dos(97645) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- https://support.apple.com/kb/HT6536 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2014-4373 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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