CVE-2017-5836: Libimobiledevice Libplist

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 2.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The plist_free_data function in plist.c in libplist allows attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via vectors involving an integer node that is treated as a PLIST_KEY and then triggers an invalid free.

Affected products

• Libimobiledevice Libplist: any version

Published 2017-03-03. Last modified 2026-06-17.