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CVE-2017-5545

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.1 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 3.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2017-01-21 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-125

Description

The main function in plistutil.c in libimobiledevice libplist through 1.12 allows attackers to obtain sensitive information from process memory or cause a denial of service (buffer over-read) via Apple Property List data that is too short.

Affected products

• UIKit0 libplist: through 1.12

References

• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95702
• https://github.com/libimobiledevice/libplist/commit/7391a506352c009fe044dead7baad9e22dd279ee
• https://github.com/libimobiledevice/libplist/issues/87
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/04/msg00002.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95702
• https://github.com/libimobiledevice/libplist/commit/7391a506352c009fe044dead7baad9e22dd279ee
• https://github.com/libimobiledevice/libplist/issues/87
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/04/msg00002.html

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