CVE-2017-8665: Microsoft Xamarin.ios

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 4.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The Xamarin.iOS update component on systems running macOS allows an attacker to run arbitrary code as root, aka "Xamarin.iOS Elevation Of Privilege Vulnerability."

Affected products

• Microsoft Xamarin.ios: up to and including 10.11

Published 2017-08-15. Last modified 2026-06-17.