CVE-2016-1757
Race condition in the kernel in Apple iOS before 9.3 and OS X before 10.11.4 allows attackers to execute arbitrary code in a privileged…
- 7.0HighCVSS base score
- 12.7%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 3.7% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- 2Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
Description
Race condition in the kernel in Apple iOS before 9.3 and OS X before 10.11.4 allows attackers to execute arbitrary code in a privileged context via a crafted app.
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
- Mach Race OSX - Local Privilege Escalation (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 39741local, osxpublished 27 Apr 2016Not verified
- Apple Mac OSX / iOS - SUID Binary Logic Error Kernel Code Execution (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 39595local, multiplepublished 23 Mar 2016Verified
References tagged exploit2 references
- 39595 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_transferred
- 39741 (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
- 2 months later
· 2 months later
Published
- 8 years later
· 8 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 | 3.0 | High7.0 | CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 12.7% · top 3.7% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.0.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
8
- APPLE-SA-2016-03-21-5 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_APPLEx_transferred
- 39595 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_transferred
- https://support.apple.com/HT206167 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 39741 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_transferred
- 1035353 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- APPLE-SA-2016-03-21-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_APPLEx_transferred
- https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=676 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://support.apple.com/HT206166 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_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-2016-2852 (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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