VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2016-7600

medium
Published 2017-02-20 · Modified 2026-05-13
CVSS v3
6.2
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CVSS v2
2.1
VIR risk
6.2

Description

An issue was discovered in certain Apple products. macOS before 10.12.2 is affected. The issue involves the "OpenPAM" component, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information by leveraging mishandling of failed PAM authentication by a sandboxed app.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
62%
Patch ETA
—

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

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OS impact
OSVersionStatusFixed in
macos macosaffected

References

CWEs

CWE-200

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