CVEvulnerability
CVE-2016-1789
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2016-04-05
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.3 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
Description
Apple iBooks Author before 2.4.1 allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via an iBooks Author file containing an XML external entity declaration in conjunction with an entity reference, related to an XML External Entity (XXE) issue.
Affected configurations
• apple ibooks author (<= 2.4.0)
References
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2016/Mar/msg00008.html lists.apple.com
- https://support.apple.com/kb/HT206224 Vendor Advisory
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2016/Mar/msg00008.html lists.apple.com
- https://support.apple.com/kb/HT206224 Vendor Advisory