CVE-2015-5869: Apple iPhone OS

Low severity, CVSS 3.3. EPSS: 0.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The Neighbor Discovery (ND) protocol implementation in the IPv6 stack in Apple iOS before 9 allows remote attackers to reconfigure a hop-limit setting via a small hop_limit value in a Router Advertisement (RA) message.

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.