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VAR-201604-0526

Vulnerability from variot - Updated: 2025-04-12 23:25

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. Attackers can exploit this issue to gain unauthorized access, and obtain potentially sensitive information. This may lead to further attacks. Versions prior to iBooks Author 2.4.1 are vulnerable. Apple iBooks Author is a set of apps from Apple (Apple) that can be obtained for free from the Mac App Store and is used to create Multi-Touch (Multi-Touch) e-books for the iPad and other e-books of any category. It supports the use of Rich content such as galleries, videos, interactive charts, 3D objects, mathematical expressions, etc. This issue was addressed through improved parsing.

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CVE-2016-1789 (GCVE-0-2016-1789)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2016-04-05 14:00 – Updated: 2024-08-05 23:10

Summary

Severity

No CVSS data available.

CWE

Assigner

apple CNA under the mitre root

CNA scorecard E 37/100 over 906 records in the last 180 days details

References

2 references

URL	Tags
https://support.apple.com/kb/HT206224	x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce…	vendor-advisoryx_refsource_APPLE

Date Public

2016-03-31 00:00

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Sightings

Author	Source	Type	Date	Other

Nomenclature

Seen: The vulnerability was mentioned, discussed, or observed by the user.
Confirmed: The vulnerability has been validated from an analyst's perspective.
Published Proof of Concept: A public proof of concept is available for this vulnerability.
Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.

Vulnerability timeline

Sightings and recorded dates, grouped by day · UTC

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How durations are calculated

Following the VTEM framework (Black Hat USA 2015), time to patch starts when the vendor or a coordinator was informed, total time to patch at discovery, and disclosure to patch at public disclosure; vendor response time runs from the report to its acknowledgement. Time to exploit and time unpatched start at the earliest discovery or report, falling back to public disclosure. Unpatched time ends at the first recorded patch, or the calculation time when no patch is recorded. Exploitation to patch shows the interval between those two events; a published proof of concept is a public exploit, not exploitation.

Each result shows its source dates. A negative interval means the end event came first; when date-only inputs leave the order open, the result says so. Date-only inputs are approximate. The earliest evidence wins: KEV report dates and sightings are labelled as such. Records describing another vulnerability are listed but never calculated from, and a PoC alone does not establish exploitation. Missing patch evidence does not prove that no patch exists. Filters below change the event list only.

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