PT-2015-1878

CVE-2015-3759

Published

2015-08-16

Updated

2016-12-24

Description by

CVSS 2.0

4.6

Medium

MetricsAV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Apple iOS versions prior to 8.4.1

Description The issue is related to the Location Framework component in the iOS operating system, which has inadequate access control restrictions. This allows a local attacker to bypass existing access restrictions to filesystem objects using symbolic links.

Recommendations For versions prior to 8.4.1, update to version 8.4.1 or later to resolve the issue.

Exploitability

Fix

Impacts

Researchers

Cererdlong

Vendors

Affected products

Weakness enumeration

CWE-264

CWE-59: Improper Link Resolution Before File Access (\'Link Following\')

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