CVE-2007-6165
highpriority · attend · 63EPSS 0.447 · 99 %ileexploit · functionalEUUSEPSS · scored 2026-10-27
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.
cvss
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base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode
weaknesses
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exploits (3)
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- EDB-16870Apple Mail.app - Image Attachment Command Execution (Metasploit)functional · exploit_db
- EDB-30781Apple Mac OSX 10.5.x - Mail Arbitrary Code Executionfunctional · exploit_db
affected products (2)
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also known as (2)
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sources
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references (22)
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- http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=307179enisa_euvd
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2007/Dec/msg00002.htmlenisa_euvd
- http://secunia.com/advisories/27785enisa_euvd
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28136enisa_euvd
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1019106enisa_euvd
- http://www.heise-security.co.uk/news/99257enisa_euvd
- http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/433819enisa_euvd
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26510enisa_euvd
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