CVE-2015-7760: Apple Mac OS X

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 2.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

libxpc in launchd in Apple OS X before 10.11 does not restrict the creation of processes for network connections, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (resource consumption) by repeatedly connecting to the SSH port, a different vulnerability than CVE-2015-7761.

Affected products

• Apple Mac OS X: up to and including 10.10.5

Published 2015-10-09. Last modified 2026-06-17.