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CVE-2016-4724

25
FAUCET Score

CVE-2016-4724 is a high-severity vulnerability affecting Apple iOS before version 10 and OS X before version 10.12, residing within the IOAcceleratorFamily. This flaw allows a crafted application to execute arbitrary code with elevated privileges or trigger a denial of service through a NULL pointer dereference. With a CVSS score of 7.8, it presents a significant risk, requiring user interaction (UI:R) for exploitation but offering high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability (C:H/I:H/A:H). Despite its severity, there is no evidence of active exploitation, no public exploit code available in Metasploit or ExploitDB, and minimal community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 9.3.5CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:apple:iphone_os:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
<= 10.11.6CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:apple:mac_os_x:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

7.8HIGH

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

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
1.8
Impact Score
5.9
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.44%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
70.3%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0143 is in the 69th percentile among its peer group of 11,617 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 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/Sep/msg00006.html
Mailing List
lists.apple.com / archives/security-announce/2016/Sep/msg00008.html
Mailing List
support.apple.com / HT207143
Vendor Advisory
support.apple.com / HT207170
Vendor Advisory
securityfocus.com / bid/93056
securitytracker.com / id/1036858