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CVE-2016-1861

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 4.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2016-06-19 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-119

Description

The NVIDIA Graphics Drivers subsystem in Apple OS X before 10.11.5 allows attackers to execute arbitrary code in a privileged context or cause a denial of service (memory corruption) via a crafted app, a different vulnerability than CVE-2016-1846.

Affected products

• macOS: through 10.11.4

References

• http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2016/May/msg00004.html
• https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=724
• https://support.apple.com/HT206567
• https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/39930/
• http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2016/May/msg00004.html
• https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=724
• https://support.apple.com/HT206567
• https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/39930/

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