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Fencer Vulns
high 7.0

CVE-2016-1757 in the critical feed json

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 con…

published 2016-03-24 10 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2016-2852

cvss
7.0
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
12.7%
EPSS 12.7% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 96%
public exploits
2
Exploit-DB

Summary

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.

Timeline

  1. First public exploit (EDB-39595)
  2. Published

Exploit prediction

12.70% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 96% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • EDB-39741 Mach Race OSX - Local Privilege Escalation local, 2016-04-27
  • EDB-39595 Apple Mac OSX / iOS - SUID Binary Logic Error Kernel Code Execution local, 2016-03-23

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 7.0 CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/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-362 Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.