CVE-2016-7579 — Sensitive Information Exposure in Apple Iphone OS

CWE-200 — Sensitive Information Exposure6 documents4 sources
Severity
5.9MEDIUMNVD
EPSS
0.5%
top 33.88%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
5
Apple Iphone OSApple MAC OS XApple Tvos+2 more
Timeline
PublishedFeb 20
Latest updateMay 14

Description

An issue was discovered in certain Apple products. iOS before 10.1 is affected. macOS before 10.12.1 is affected. tvOS before 10.0.1 is affected. The issue involves the "CFNetwork Proxies" component, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof a proxy password authentication requirement and obtain sensitive information.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:NExploitability: 2.2 | Impact: 3.6

Affected Packages6 packages

▶NVDapple/tvos< 10.0.1
▶NVDapple/mac_os_x< 10.12.1
▶Appleapple/tvos10.0.1
▶NVDapple/iphone_os< 10.1

🔴Vulnerability Details

1
GHSA
GHSA-8mq9-46wx-cw4x: An issue was discovered in certain Apple products↗2022-05-14
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📋Vendor Advisories

3
Apple
CVE-2016-7579: iOS 10.1↗2016-10-24
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Apple
CVE-2016-7579: macOS Sierra 10.12.1, Security Update 2016-002 El Capitan, and Security Update 2016-006 Yosemite↗2016-10-24
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Apple
CVE-2016-7579: tvOS 10.0.1↗2016-10-24
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💬Community

1
Bugzilla
CVE-2015-7579 rubygem-rails-html-sanitizer: XSS vulnerability in Action View's strip_tags function↗2016-01-26
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