The Neighbor Discovery (ND) protocol implementation in the IPv6 stack in Apple iOS before 9 allows remote attackers to reconfigure a…

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.

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

0.91% · top 40% of all CVEs (4 Nov 2026)

The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Low 3.3.

Weakness

• n/a
• CWE-20 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-20 and its CVEs

Affected products

• n/a

  • affected n/a

References (9)

• 1033609 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
• [oss-security] 20150404 Re: CVE Request : IPv6 Hop limit lowering via RA messages (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
• https://support.apple.com/HT205212 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• APPLE-SA-2015-09-30-3 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_APPLEx_transferred
• 76764 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
• https://support.apple.com/HT205267 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• APPLE-SA-2015-09-21-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_APPLEx_transferred
• https://support.apple.com/HT205213 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• APPLE-SA-2015-09-16-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_APPLEx_transferred

Sources

The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.

• CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
• CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
• NVD (opens in a new tab)
• FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
• OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
• GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
• CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)

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Record last updated 6 Aug 2024, 07:06 UTC.