VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2015-5869

CVSS score3.3 LOW
EPSS probability0.91%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2015-09-18
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorAV:A/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

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.

Weakness classification

  • CWE-20: Improper Input Validation

Primary references