CVE-2016-4725

high

Published 2016-09-25 · Modified 2026-05-06

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CVSS v3

8.1

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

8.1

Description

IOAcceleratorFamily in Apple iOS before 10, OS X before 10.12, tvOS before 10, and watchOS before 3 allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information from process memory or cause a denial of service (memory corruption) via a crafted web site.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

88%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here with source_tier=community-verified.

OS impact

OS	Version	Status	Fixed in
macos		affected	`10.0`

References

CWEs

CWE-119

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

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