CVE-2016-7624

FAUCET Score

CVE-2016-7624 is a low-severity information disclosure vulnerability affecting macOS versions prior to 10.12.2, specifically within the IOAcceleratorFamily component. A local attacker could exploit this flaw to gain sensitive kernel memory-layout information. While the CVSS score is low (3.3) and it has a low EPSS and FAUCET Risk Score, this type of information could potentially aid in further exploitation. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

Vendor	Product	Version(s)	CPE
		<= 10.12.1CPE matchmatch criteria	cpe:2.3:o:apple:mac_os_x::::::::

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

3.3LOW

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

Attack Vector

LOCAL

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

LOW

User Interaction

NONE

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

LOW

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

NONE

Exploitability Score

1.8

Impact Score

1.4

CvssVersion

3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score

0.33%

Probability of exploitation in next 30 days

EPSS Percentile

25.0%

Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group

As of 2026-07-27

Model: v2026.06.15

This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0032 is in the 75th percentile among its peer group of 1,509 CVEs.

Social Chatter

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

support.apple.com / HT207423

Vendor Advisory

securityfocus.com / bid/94903

Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry

securitytracker.com / id/1037469