CVE-2015-1112

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2015-04-10 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-200

Description

Apple Safari before 6.2.5, 7.x before 7.1.5, and 8.x before 8.0.5, as used on iOS before 8.3 and other platforms, does not properly delete browsing-history data from the history.plist file, which allows attackers to obtain sensitive information by reading this file.

Affected products

Apple Iphone Os: through 8.2
Apple Safari: through 6.2.4; 7.0, 7.0.1, 7.0.2, 7.0.3, 7.0.4, 7.0.5 (+11)

References

http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2015/Apr/msg00000.html
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2015/Apr/msg00002.html
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1032047
https://support.apple.com/HT204658
https://support.apple.com/HT204661
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2015/Apr/msg00000.html
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2015/Apr/msg00002.html
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1032047
https://support.apple.com/HT204658
https://support.apple.com/HT204661

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