CVE-2015-5869 describes a vulnerability in the Neighbor Discovery (ND) protocol within the IPv6 stack of Apple iOS before version 9, affecting iPhone OS, macOS, and watchOS. An adjacent attacker can reconfigure a hop-limit setting by sending a Router Advertisement (RA) message with a small hop_limit value, leading to a partial integrity impact. This vulnerability has a low CVSS score of 3.3, indicating a low severity, and there is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code, or significant community discussion.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
<= 10.10.5CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:apple:mac_os_x:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
<= 8.4.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:apple:iphone_os:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
1.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:apple:watchos:1.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:A/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
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