CVE-2015-5868: Apple iPhone OS

High severity, CVSS 7.2. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The kernel in Apple iOS before 9 allows local users to gain privileges or cause a denial of service (memory corruption) via unspecified vectors, a different vulnerability than CVE-2015-5896 and CVE-2015-5903.

Affected products

• Apple iPhone OS: up to and including 8.4.1
• Apple Mac OS X: up to and including 10.10.5
• Apple watchOS: version 1.0 only

Published 2015-09-18. Last modified 2026-06-17.