CVE-2016-4617 in macOS

Summary

An issue was discovered in certain Apple products. macOS before 10.12 is affected. The issue involves a sandbox escape related to launchctl process spawning in the "libxpc" component.

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• Reservation: 05/11/2016
• Disclosure: 02/20/2017
• Moderation: VulDB entry created
• Entries: VDB-97123 (1)
• CPE: ready
• CWE: CWE-264 (Confirmed)
• CVSS: 8.0
• EPSS: 0.00058
• Activities: Very Low

Sources

• MITRE: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-4617
• NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-4617
• CVE Details: https://www.cvedetails.com/cve/CVE-2016-4617/