A vulnerability was found in Apple iOS up to 8.4.1 (Smartphone Operating System) and classified as critical. Affected by this issue is an unknown code block of the component Safari. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a 7pk security vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-254. Impacted is confidentiality, and integrity. CVE summarizes:

Safari in Apple iOS before 9 allows remote attackers to spoof the relationship between URLs and web content via a crafted window opener on a web site.

The weakness was published 09/16/2015 by Keita Haga (beist) as HT205212 as confirmed advisory (Website). The advisory is available at support.apple.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2015-5905 since 08/06/2015. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be launched remotely. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available. The structure of the vulnerability defines a possible price range of USD $5k-$25k at the moment (estimation calculated on 06/16/2022). It is expected to see the exploit prices for this product increasing in the near future.This vulnerability is assigned to T1211 by the MITRE ATT&CK project.

Upgrading to version 9 eliminates this vulnerability. A possible mitigation has been published immediately after the disclosure of the vulnerability.

Similar entries are available at 9015, 68413, 77828 and 77762.

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• 8.4.0
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