What is CVE-2015-7029?

CVE-2015-7029 is a critical-severity vulnerability in Apple Airport Base Station Firmware, classified under Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer. CVSS score: 9.8/10. Published 2016-07-03.

How severe is CVE-2015-7029?

Critical severity. CVSS v3 base score is 9.8 out of 10.

Buffer overflow in Apple Airport Base Station Firmware

CVE-2015-7029

Apple AirPort Base Station Firmware before 7.6.7 and 7.7.x before 7.7.7 misparses DNS data, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (memory corruption) via unspecified vectors.

Vulnerability class: Buffer Overflow

Published 2016-07-03 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 9.8 (Critical). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.039 (90.0th percentile), scored 2026-09-30.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 90th percentile — 90.0% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.039 · newest: 0.039 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Apple Airport Base Station Firmware — versions 7.7.0, 7.7.3

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-119 — Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

References

lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2016/Jun/msg00000.html (vendor-advisory, Vendor Advisory)
support.apple.com/HT206849 (Vendor Advisory)
www.securitytracker.com/id/1036136 (vdb-entry)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2015-7029?: CVE-2015-7029 is a critical-severity vulnerability in Apple Airport Base Station Firmware, classified under Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer. CVSS score: 9.8/10. Published 2016-07-03.
How severe is CVE-2015-7029?: Critical severity. CVSS v3 base score is 9.8 out of 10.