TI-2015-04963 Aliases CVE-2015-5869 GHSA-r6qr-4hj2-p97f

The Neighbor Discovery (ND) protocol implementation in the IPv6 stack in Apple iOS before…

LOW 18CWE-20Published 2015-09-18 · Updated 2024-08-06

Key facts

Attack vector: Adjacent network
Privileges required: None
User interaction: — Not recorded in CVSS 2.0
Attack complexity: Low
Impact type: —
Confidentiality · integrity · availability: None · Partial · None
Fix status: No fix listed

Attack profile from CVSS 2.0 · NVD. Fix status from CNA.

Summary

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.

Why it matters now

EPSS 0.00913 60th percentileScored 2026-11-07

Fix No fix listed No fixed version in the sources yet

SSVC decision points

Not available: CISA has not published SSVC decision points for this record.

Affected products

Vendor	Product	Affected versions	Fixed in	Status	Source
—	—	all versions	—	No fix listed	CNA

— Vendor— Affected all versions Fixed in — No fix listed CNA

CPE configurations NVD · 3

CPE	Versions	Role	Vendor
cpe:2.3:o:apple:mac_os_x::::::::	up to 10.10.5	Vulnerable	Apple
cpe:2.3:o:apple:iphone_os::::::::	up to 8.4.1	Vulnerable	Apple
cpe:2.3:o:apple:watchos:1.0:::::::*	1.0	Vulnerable	Apple

cpe:2.3:o:apple:mac_os_x:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* Versions up to 10.10.5 Vulnerable ·Apple
cpe:2.3:o:apple:iphone_os:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* Versions up to 8.4.1 Vulnerable ·Apple
cpe:2.3:o:apple:watchos:1.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* Versions 1.0 Vulnerable ·Apple

Remediation

No fixed version listed by the sources yet.

Timeline

2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2015-5869
2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-r6qr-4hj2-p97f

References

Advisory 6

Other 1

[oss-security] 20150404 Re: CVE Request : IPv6 Hop limit lowering via RA messages

TI-2025-28008 Out-of-bounds write in Apple iOS and iPadOS KEVCVSS 3.1CRITICAL 10.0
TI-2025-22441 Apple iOS and iPadOS: An attacker with arbitrary read and write capability may be able to… KEVCVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8
TI-2025-22440 Memory corruption in Apple iOS and iPadOS KEVCVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8
TI-2025-17951 Out-of-bounds write in Apple Safari KEVCVSS 3.1CRITICAL 10.0
TI-2025-17847 Use after free in Apple iOS and iPadOS KEVCVSS 3.1CRITICAL 10.0
TI-2022-06854 Out-of-bounds write in Apple iOS and iPadOS KEVCVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8

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Sources

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