CVE-2015-3693
Apple Mac EFI before 2015-001, as used in OS X before 10.10.4 and other products, does not properly set refresh rates for DDR3 RAM, which…
- 9.3HighCVSS base score
- 7.6%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 5.4% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- 1Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
Description
Apple Mac EFI before 2015-001, as used in OS X before 10.10.4 and other products, does not properly set refresh rates for DDR3 RAM, which might make it easier for remote attackers to conduct row-hammer attacks, and consequently gain privileges or cause a denial of service (memory corruption), by triggering certain patterns of access to memory locations.
Public exploit
An exploit or proof of concept is public: anyone can try it against an unpatched system. The public collections list an Exploit-DB entry for it.
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Exploit-DB1 entry
- Rowhammer - NaCl Sandbox Escape (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 36311local, linux_x86-64published 9 Mar 2015Verified
Modules, templates and exploits as listed by the Metasploit Framework (BSD-3-Clause), ProjectDiscovery's Nuclei templates (MIT) and the Exploit Database (GPLv2), read once a day. Where the data comes from
Timeline
ID reserved
By apple
- 57 days later
· 57 days later
Published
- 9 years later
· 9 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 | High9.3 | AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 7.6% · top 5.4% of all CVEs (10 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 9.3.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
8
- APPLE-SA-2015-06-30-3 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_APPLEx_transferred
- http://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2015/03/exploiting-dram-rowhammer-bug-to-gain.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- APPLE-SA-2015-06-30-2 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_APPLEx_transferred
- 1032755 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- http://support.apple.com/kb/HT204942 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 75495 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- 1032444 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- http://support.apple.com/kb/HT204934 (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-2015-3729 (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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[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2015-3693)Record last updated .