Bypassing Entitlement Protection Mechanism in Apple iOS: Arbitrary Process Access

CVE-2015-5882 · HIGH Severity

AV:L/AC:L/AU:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

The processor_set_tasks API implementation in Apple iOS before 9 allows local users to bypass an entitlement protection mechanism and obtain access to the task ports of arbitrary processes by leveraging root privileges.

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