CVE-2007-6165
HIGH · CVSS 9.3EPSS 44.7%EU EUVD
Mail in Apple Mac OS X Leopard (10.5.1) allows user-assisted remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via an AppleDouble attachment containing an apparently-safe file type and script in a resource fork, which does not warn the user that a separate program is going to be executed. NOTE: this is a regression error related to CVE-2006-0395.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 9.3 (v2.0)
- Severity
- HIGH
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-20
- EPSS score
- 44.7% (99th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2007-6134)
- Published
- November 29, 2007
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2007-6134 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- apple / mac os x
References
- http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=307179
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2007/Dec/msg00002.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/27785(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28136(Vendor Advisory)
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1019106
- http://www.heise-security.co.uk/news/99257(Vendor Advisory)
- http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/433819(US Government Resource)
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26510(Exploit)
- http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA07-352A.html(US Government Resource)
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3958(Vendor Advisory)
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/4238(Vendor Advisory)
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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