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Apple Inc. is a public technology company headquartered in Cupertino, California, known for its consumer electronics and macOS operating system. Its security posture includes regular patching with Rapid Security Responses, though it has a history of high-severity vulnerabilities in core system components that require user privilege escalation.

Failure events
2
Zero-days
0
RCEs
1
On KEV
2
Critical
0
Worst shame
75
PROFILE
CategoryOperating SystemWhat they doApple Inc. develops and sells consumer electronics, computer software, and online services, including the macOS operating system.Founded1976 Websitehttps://www.apple.com ↗
SECURITY POSTURE

Apple maintains a regular patching cadence with Rapid Security Responses for critical issues, but its track record includes high-severity vulnerabilities in core system components like IOHIDFamily and local authentication bypasses that required user privilege escalation.

Notable failures
  • CVE-2014-4404 heap-based buffer overflow in IOHIDFamily
  • CVE-2015-1130 local authentication bypass
  • 8 actively exploited vulnerabilities on CISA KEV list
Patterns: high-severity vulnerabilities in core system components; local privilege escalation requiring user interaction
FAILURE HISTORY · 2
DATEEVENTSEVSUMMARY
2022-02-10 CVE-2014-4404 high Apple OS X suffered a heap-based buffer overflow in IOHIDFamily allowing privileged code execution.
2022-02-10 CVE-2015-1130 high A local authentication bypass in Apple OS X before 10.10.3 allowed users to gain admin privileges without remote exploitation.
DOSSIER SOURCES
Open questions: Apple's current patching SLA for OS X · Number of active users of OS X in enterprise environments
DOSSIER · dex-RAG synthesis · grounded in our own collection + trusted sourcesbuilt 2026-08-31 04:02:10.192672+00:00