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Fencer Vulns
high 7.8

CVE-2016-7617 json

An issue was discovered in certain Apple products.

published 2017-02-20 9 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2016-8467

cvss
7.8
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
5.1%
EPSS 5.1% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 92%
public exploits
2
Exploit-DB

Summary

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.

Timeline

  1. First public exploit (EDB-40952)
  2. Published

Exploit prediction

5.09% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 92% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • 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

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.