CVE-2016-8507

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Published 2017-03-01 · Modified 2026-05-13

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CVSS v3

6.5

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

6.5

Description

Yandex Browser for iOS before 16.10.0.2357 does not properly restrict processing of facetime:// URLs, which allows remote attackers to initiate facetime-call without user's approval and obtain video and audio data from a device via a crafted web site.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

75%

Patch ETA

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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 with source_tier=community-verified.

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
yandex	yandex_browser	`{"endExcluding":"16.10.0.2357"}`	`16.10.0.2357`

References

CWEs

CWE-200

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.