CVE-2016-4752: Apple Mac OS X

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The SecKeyDeriveFromPassword function in Apple OS X before 10.12 does not use the CF_RETURNS_RETAINED keyword, which allows attackers to obtain sensitive information from process memory by triggering key derivation.

Affected products

• Apple Mac OS X: up to and including 10.11.6

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