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CVE-2016-1757

40
FAUCET Score

CVE-2016-1757 describes a race condition vulnerability within the kernel of Apple iOS before 9.3 and OS X before 10.11.4. This flaw allows an attacker to execute arbitrary code with privileged context through a specially crafted application. With a CVSS score of 7.0 (HIGH), exploitation requires local access and user interaction (UI:R), but can lead to complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability (C:H/I:H/A:H). While not on CISA's KEV catalog, exploit code is publicly available on ExploitDB (EDB-39595, EDB-39741), and it has garnered significant community discussion and media coverage, indicating its potential for exploitation.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 9.2.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:apple:iphone_os:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
<= 10.11.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:apple:mac_os_x:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

7.0HIGH

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
HIGH
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
1.0
Impact Score
5.9
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
12.67%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
95.8%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-39741 · Apr 27, 2016
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.1267 is in the 97th percentile among its peer group of 386 CVEs.

Social Chatter

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

Media Mentions

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.2 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/2016/Mar/msg00000.html
Vendor Advisory
lists.apple.com / archives/security-announce/2016/Mar/msg00004.html
Vendor Advisory
bugs.chromium.org / p/project-zero/issues/detail
support.apple.com / HT206166
Vendor Advisory
support.apple.com / HT206167
Vendor Advisory
exploit-db.com / exploits/39595
exploit-db.com / exploits/39741
securitytracker.com / id/1035353