CVE-2015-3756

low
Published 2015-08-16 · Modified 2026-05-06
CVSS v3
CVSS v2
2.1
VIR risk
2.1

Description

The Certificate UI in Apple iOS before 8.4.1 does not prevent X.509 certificate acceptance within the lock screen, which allows physically proximate attackers to establish arbitrary certificate trust relationships by completing a dialog.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: product-security@apple.com — https://support.apple.com/kb/HT205030

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: product-security@apple.com — http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2015/Aug/msg00002.html

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
macos macosaffected

References

CWEs

CWE-254

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.