CVE-2016-4755: Apple Mac OS X

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Terminal in Apple OS X before 10.12 uses weak permissions for the .bash_history and .bash_session files, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information via unspecified vectors.

Affected products

• Apple Mac OS X: up to and including 10.11.6

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