CVE-2016-7585 in macOS

Summary

An issue was discovered in certain Apple products. macOS before 10.12.4 is affected. The issue involves mishandling of DMA in the "EFI" component. It allows physically proximate attackers to discover the FileVault 2 encryption password via a crafted Thunderbolt adapter.

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• Reservation: 09/09/2016
• Disclosure: 04/01/2017
• Moderation: VulDB entry created
• Entries: VDB-98625 (1)
• CPE: ready
• CWE: CWE-310 (Confirmed)
• Exploit: Download
• CVSS: 5.5
• EPSS: 0.00081
• Activities: Very Low

Sources

• MITRE: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-7585
• NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-7585
• CVE Details: https://www.cvedetails.com/cve/CVE-2016-7585/