CVE-2016-1784
The History implementation in WebKit in Apple iOS before 9.3, Safari before 9.1, and tvOS before 9.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (resource consumption and application crash)
02 Description
The History implementation in WebKit in Apple iOS before 9.3, Safari before 9.1, and tvOS before 9.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (resource consumption and application crash)
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 1.36% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 71.6% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- 6.5 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.
- NVD CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-17.
- Red Hat severity
- No Red Hat rating. Red Hat rates the CVEs that affect its products.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2016-03-24 01:00Z10 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-05 23:10Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2016-01-13
- Assigning CNA
- apple
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- CWE-400Uncontrolled Resource ConsumptionClass
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- ea8ad3d7998f1deb84fdbd657f24522bc85484cf79fc30ac82952f1370e12c6e
05 Affected products
06 References
- lists.apple.comAPPLE-SA-2016-03-21-6http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2016/Mar/msg00005.html
- www.securitytracker.com1035353http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1035353
- lists.apple.comAPPLE-SA-2016-03-21-1http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2016/Mar/msg00000.html
- support.apple.comhttps://support.apple.com/HT206171
- lists.apple.comAPPLE-SA-2016-03-21-3http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2016/Mar/msg00002.html
- support.apple.comhttps://support.apple.com/HT206169
- support.apple.comhttps://support.apple.com/HT206166
07 Fixed in
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
- qtwebkit-opensource-src No fix yet
- qtwebkit-source No fix yet
- webkitgtk No fix yet
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
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