7.8
CVSSv3

CVE-2016-1825

Published: 20/05/2016 Updated: 02/12/2016
CVSS v2 Base Score: 9.3 | Impact Score: 10 | Exploitability Score: 8.6
CVSS v3 Base Score: 7.8 | Impact Score: 5.9 | Exploitability Score: 1.8
VMScore: 935
Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Vulnerability Summary

IOHIDFamily in Apple OS X prior to 10.11.5 allows malicious users to execute arbitrary code in a privileged context or cause a denial of service (memory corruption) via a crafted app.

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Exploits

## physmem <!-- Brandon Azad --> physmem is a physical memory inspection tool and local privilege escalation targeting macOS up through 10121 It exploits either [CVE-2016-1825] or [CVE-2016-7617] depending on the deployment target These two vulnerabilities are nearly identical, and exploitation can be done exactly the same They were pa ...

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Local privilege escalation through macOS 10.12.1 via CVE-2016-1825 or CVE-2016-7617.

physmem physmem is a physical memory inspection tool and local privilege escalation targeting macOS up through 10121 It exploits either CVE-2016-1825 or CVE-2016-7617 depending on the deployment target These two vulnerabilities are nearly identical, and exploitation can be done exactly the same They were patched in OS X El Capitan 10115 and macOS Sierra 10122, respect