CVE-2016-1789

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2016-04-05 · updated 2026-06-17

Description

Apple iBooks Author before 2.4.1 allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via an iBooks Author file containing an XML external entity declaration in conjunction with an entity reference, related to an XML External Entity (XXE) issue.

Affected products

Apple Ibooks Author: through 2.4.0

References

http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2016/Mar/msg00008.html
https://support.apple.com/kb/HT206224
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2016/Mar/msg00008.html
https://support.apple.com/kb/HT206224

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