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medium 5.3

CVE-2016-5104 json

The socket_create function in common/socket.c in libimobiledevice and libusbmuxd allows remote attackers to bypass intended access restrict…

published 2016-06-13 10 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2016-6055

cvss
5.3
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
3.0%
EPSS 3.0% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 87%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

The socket_create function in common/socket.c in libimobiledevice and libusbmuxd allows remote attackers to bypass intended access restrictions and communicate with services on iOS devices by connecting to an IPv4 TCP socket.

Patch / fix

  • libusbmuxd Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 1.0.10-3
  • libimobiledevice Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 1.2.0+dfsg-3

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2016-5104

  • libusbmuxd Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 1.0.10-2ubuntu0.1
  • libimobiledevice Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 1.1.5+git20140313.bafe6a9e-0ubuntu1.1
  • libimobiledevice Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 1.2.0+dfsg-3~ubuntu0.2

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2016-5104

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • usbmuxd SLES for SAP 12 SP1, SLES for SAP 12, SLES 12 SP1 +5 more 1.0.8-12.1
  • libimobiledevice SLES for SAP 12 SP1, SLES for SAP 12, SLES 12 SP1 +7 more 1.1.5-6.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2016:1639-1

  • libusbmuxd Arch Linux 1.0.10-2
  • libimobiledevice Arch Linux 1.2.0-4

arch linux advisories AVG-7AVG-8

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2016-5104 updated cvss 4.3

libimobiledevice: Sockets listening on INADDR_ANY

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 usbmuxd Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 usbmuxd, libimobiledevice, libimobiledevice-utils, libimobiledevice-python
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 libimobiledevice, libimobiledevice-python
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

2.99% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 87% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 5.3 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
NVD 2.0 5.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Classification

Weakness

References

Sources

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