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CVE-2016-1788
Messages in Apple iOS before 9.3, OS X before 10.11.4, and watchOS before 2.2 does not properly implement a cryptographic protection…
- 5.9MediumCVSS base score
- 2.0%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 19% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
Messages in Apple iOS before 9.3, OS X before 10.11.4, and watchOS before 2.2 does not properly implement a cryptographic protection mechanism, which allows remote attackers to read message attachments via vectors related to duplicate messages.
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 | Medium5.9 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 2.0% · top 19% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.9.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
7
- APPLE-SA-2016-03-21-5 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_APPLEx_transferred
- https://support.apple.com/HT206167 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://support.apple.com/HT206168 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_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
- APPLE-SA-2016-03-21-2 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_APPLEx_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-2016-2883 (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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