An issue was discovered in certain Apple products.

Published 9 y ago 2017-02-20 · modified 4 mo ago 2026-06-17 · JSON

CVSS

7.8

v3.0 · NVD

CISA KEV

not known exploited

EPSS

5.1%

percentile 92%

Public exploits

Exploit-DB

An issue was discovered in certain Apple products. macOS before 10.12.2 is affected. The issue involves the "Bluetooth" component. It allows attackers to execute arbitrary code in a privileged context or cause a denial of service (type confusion) via a crafted app.

Exploit prediction (EPSS)

5.09% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 92% of all scored CVEs.

Exploits and detections

EDB-44237 Apple macOS Sierra 10.12.1 - 'physmem' Local Privilege Escalation · local · 2017-01-16
EDB-40952 Apple macOS 10.12.1 Kernel - Writable Privileged IOKit Registry Properties Code Execution · dos · 2016-12-22

CVSS scores

Assigned by	Version	Score	Vector
NVD	3.0	7.8	`CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H`
NVD	2.0	9.3	`AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C`

Classification

Weakness

CWE-704 Incorrect Type Conversion or Cast

References

securityfocus.com /bid/94903 · vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID, x_transferred
exploit-db.com /exploits/40952/ · exploit, x_refsource_EXPLOIT-DB, x_transferred
securitytracker.com /id/1037469 · vdb-entry, x_refsource_SECTRACK, x_transferred
support.apple.com /HT207423 · x_refsource_CONFIRM, x_transferred

Sources

CVE List: CVE-2016-7617
NVD: CVE-2016-7617

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