A certain Apple patch for OpenSSL in Apple OS X 10.9.2 and earlier uses a Trust Evaluation Agent (TEA) feature without terminating certain TLS/SSL handshakes as specified in the SSL_CTX_set_verify callback function's documentation, which allows remote attackers to bypass extra verification within a custom application via a crafted certificate chain that is acceptable to TEA but not acceptable to that application.
CVE-2014-2234 is a security vulnerability that . Impacting 1 product from apple organizations running these solutions should prioritize assessment and patching.
Documented in 2014, this vulnerability occurred amid the cloud computing expansion era, where traditional network perimeter security models were being reevaluated. Organizations were transitioning from isolated infrastructure to interconnected systems, creating new attack surfaces that vulnerabilities like this could exploit.
2014-03-05T05:11:22.453
2025-04-12T10:46:40.837
Deferred
CVSSv2: 6.4 (MEDIUM)
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N
10.0
4.9
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