CVE-2015-3756
low
CVSS v3
—
CVSS v4 NEW
—
VIR risk
2.1
Description
The Certificate UI in Apple iOS before 8.4.1 does not prevent X.509 certificate acceptance within the lock screen, which allows physically proximate attackers to establish arbitrary certificate trust relationships by completing a dialog.
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
—
Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.
✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here withsource_tier=community-verified.
OS impact
macOS Affected 1 release
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| — | Affected | — |
References
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2015/Aug/msg00002.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/76337
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1033275
- https://support.apple.com/kb/HT205030
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2015/Aug/msg00002.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/76337
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1033275
- https://support.apple.com/kb/HT205030
CWEs
CWE-254
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.