CVE-2016-4620 describes a vulnerability in the Sandbox Profiles component of Apple iOS before version 10, allowing malicious applications to discover text-message recipients by improperly accessing directory metadata for SMS draft directories. This is a low-severity vulnerability with a CVSS score of 3.3, requiring user interaction (UI:R) and local access (AV:L) for exploitation, potentially leading to information disclosure (C:L). There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or KEV listing, though it has received some community discussion and media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
<= 9.3.5CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:apple:iphone_os:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
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