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CVE-2015-6992

22
FAUCET Score

CVE-2015-6992 is a memory corruption vulnerability in Apple's CoreText component, affecting iOS before 9.1, OS X before 10.11.1, and iTunes before 12.3.1. This flaw allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service through a specially crafted font file. With a CVSS score of 7.5, it is considered highly severe, requiring no authentication and low attack complexity to achieve partial confidentiality, integrity, and availability impacts. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this vulnerability.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 12.3.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:apple:itunes:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
<= 9.0.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:apple:iphone_os:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
<= 10.11.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:apple:mac_os_x:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

7.5HIGH

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
6.4
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
3.70%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
88.6%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0370 is in the 80th percentile among its peer group of 51,553 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Vendor Patches (1)

applevendor investigatingvia nvd_reference
View patch

References

lists.apple.com / archives/security-announce/2015/Oct/msg00002.html
Vendor Advisory
lists.apple.com / archives/security-announce/2015/Oct/msg00005.html
Vendor Advisory
lists.apple.com / archives/security-announce/2015/Oct/msg00006.html
PatchVendor Advisory
support.apple.com / HT205370
Vendor Advisory
support.apple.com / HT205372
Vendor Advisory
support.apple.com / HT205375
Vendor Advisory
securitytracker.com / id/1033929