VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2016-4617

high
Published 2017-02-20 · Modified 2026-05-13
CVSS v3
8.8
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v2
4.6
VIR risk
8.8

Description

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
82%
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/HT207170

OS impact
OSVersionStatusFixed in
macos macosaffected

References

CWEs

CWE-264

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