CVE-2015-5869

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

CWE-20 Input Validation

Publication date:

18/09/2015

Last modified:

12/04/2025

Description

The Neighbor Discovery (ND) protocol implementation in the IPv6 stack in Apple iOS before 9 allows remote attackers to reconfigure a hop-limit setting via a small hop_limit value in a Router Advertisement (RA) message.

Impact

Vector 2.0

AV:A/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 3.30 LOW
Vector: AV:A/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Attack Vector (AV): Adjacent
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Authentication (Au): None
Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): Physical
Availability (A): None

Base Score 2.0

3.30

Severity 2.0

LOW

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE	From	Up to
cpe:2.3:o:apple:mac_os_x::::::::		10.10.5 (including)
cpe:2.3:o:apple:iphone_os::::::::		8.4.1 (including)
cpe:2.3:o:apple:watchos:1.0:::::::*

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CVE-2015-5869

Description

Impact

Vulnerable products and versions

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools