CVE-2015-5851 — Sensitive Information Exposure in Apple Iphone OS

CWE-200 — Sensitive Information Exposure4 documents3 sources
Severity
2.1LOWNVD
EPSS
0.1%
top 80.60%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
4
Apple Iphone OSApple MAC OS XApple IOS 9+1 more
Timeline
PublishedSep 18
Latest updateMay 17

Description

The convenience initializer in the Multipeer Connectivity component in Apple iOS before 9 does not require an encrypted session, which allows local users to obtain cleartext multipeer data via an encrypted-to-unencrypted downgrade attack.

CVSS vector

AV:L/AC:L/C:P/I:N/A:NExploitability: 3.9 | Impact: 2.9

Affected Packages4 packages

▶NVDapple/mac_os_x10.10.5
▶NVDapple/iphone_os8.4.1
▶Appleapple/ios_9

🔴Vulnerability Details

1
GHSA
GHSA-8wgf-m2rf-h5rh: The convenience initializer in the Multipeer Connectivity component in Apple iOS before 9 does not require an encrypted session, which allows local us↗2022-05-17
▶

📋Vendor Advisories

2
Apple
CVE-2015-5851: iOS 9↗
▶
Apple
CVE-2015-5851: OS X El Capitan v10.11↗
▶