CVE-2016-4679: Apple iPhone OS

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 2.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

An issue was discovered in certain Apple products. iOS before 10.1 is affected. macOS before 10.12.1 is affected. tvOS before 10.0.1 is affected. watchOS before 3.1 is affected. The issue involves the "libarchive" component, which allows remote attackers to write to arbitrary files via a crafted archive containing a symlink.

Affected products

• Apple iPhone OS: before 10.1 (fixed in 10.1)
• Apple Mac OS X: before 10.12.1 (fixed in 10.12.1)
• Apple tvOS: before 10.0.1 (fixed in 10.0.1)
• Apple watchOS: before 3.1 (fixed in 3.1)

Published 2017-02-20. Last modified 2026-06-17.