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CVE-2015-7046

12
FAUCET Score

CVE-2015-7046 describes a privilege separation vulnerability within the Sandbox feature of Apple's xnu kernel, affecting iOS before 9.2, OS X before 10.11.2, tvOS before 9.1, and watchOS before 2.1. This flaw allows a crafted application with root privileges to bypass Address Space Layout Randomization (ASLR) protection. With a CVSS score of 2.6 (AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N), this vulnerability has a network attack vector and high access complexity, leading to a partial confidentiality impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 2.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:apple:watchos:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
<= 9.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:apple:tvos:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
<= 10.11.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:apple:mac_os_x:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
<= 9.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:apple:iphone_os:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

2.6LOW

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

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
NONE
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
HIGH
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
4.9
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.90%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
77.5%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0190 is in the 70th percentile among its peer group of 1,506 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.3 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 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/Dec/msg00000.html
Vendor Advisory
lists.apple.com / archives/security-announce/2015/Dec/msg00001.html
Vendor Advisory
lists.apple.com / archives/security-announce/2015/Dec/msg00002.html
Vendor Advisory
lists.apple.com / archives/security-announce/2015/Dec/msg00005.html
Vendor Advisory
support.apple.com / HT205635
Vendor Advisory
support.apple.com / HT205637
Vendor Advisory
support.apple.com / HT205640
Vendor Advisory
support.apple.com / HT205641
Vendor Advisory
securityfocus.com / bid/78719
securitytracker.com / id/1034344