VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2016-8507

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Published 2017-03-01 · Modified 2026-05-13
CVSS v3
6.5
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CVSS v2
4.3
VIR risk
6.5

Description

Yandex Browser for iOS before 16.10.0.2357 does not properly restrict processing of facetime:// URLs, which allows remote attackers to initiate facetime-call without user's approval and obtain video and audio data from a device via a crafted web site.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
75%
Patch ETA
—

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: browser-security@yandex-team.ru — https://yandex.com/blog/security-changelogs/fixed-in-version-16-10

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
yandexyandex_browser{"endExcluding":"16.10.0.2357"}16.10.0.2357

References

CWEs

CWE-200

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