CVE-2016-4748: Apple Mac OS X

Medium severity, CVSS 5.3. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Perl in Apple OS X before 10.12 allows local users to bypass the taint-mode protection mechanism via a crafted environment variable.

Affected products

• Apple Mac OS X: up to and including 10.11.6

Published 2016-09-25. Last modified 2026-06-17.