CVE-2015-7084
The kernel in Apple iOS before 9.2, OS X before 10.11.2, tvOS before 9.1, and watchOS before 2.1 allows local users to gain privileges or…
- 7.2HighCVSS base score
- 1.00%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 37% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- 2Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
Description
The kernel in Apple iOS before 9.2, OS X before 10.11.2, tvOS before 9.1, and watchOS before 2.1 allows local users to gain privileges or cause a denial of service (memory corruption) via unspecified vectors, a different vulnerability than CVE-2015-7083.
Public exploit
An exploit or proof of concept is public: anyone can try it against an unpatched system. The public collections list 2 Exploit-DB entries for it. 2 references of the record are tagged as an exploit.
Show the exploits4
Exploit-DB2 entries
- Apple Mac OSX / iOS - Unsandboxable Kernel Code Exection Due to iokit Double Release in IOKit (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 39357dos, osxpublished 28 Jan 2016Verified
- Apple Mac OSX / iOS Kernel - iokit Registry Iterator Manipulation Double-Free (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 39366dos, multiplepublished 28 Jan 2016Verified
References tagged exploit2 references
- 39357 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_transferred
- 39366 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_transferred
Modules, templates and exploits as listed by the Metasploit Framework (BSD-3-Clause), ProjectDiscovery's Nuclei templates (MIT) and the Exploit Database (GPLv2), read once a day. Where the data comes from
Timeline
ID reserved
By apple
- 3 months later
· 3 months later
Published
- 9 years later
· 9 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | High7.2 | AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.00% · top 37% of all CVEs (10 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.2.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
12
- https://support.apple.com/HT205635 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://support.apple.com/HT205637 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 1034344 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- APPLE-SA-2015-12-08-4 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_APPLEx_transferred
- APPLE-SA-2015-12-08-3 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_APPLEx_transferred
- 39357 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_transferred
- 78719 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- 39366 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_transferred
- APPLE-SA-2015-12-08-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_APPLEx_transferred
- https://support.apple.com/HT205641 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://support.apple.com/HT205640 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- APPLE-SA-2015-12-08-2 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_APPLEx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2015-7016 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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