CVE-2006-1457

no score yetEPSS 2.3%

Safari on Apple Mac OS X 10.4.6, when "Open `safe' files after downloading" is enabled, will automatically expand archives, which could allow remote attackers to overwrite arbitrary files via an archive that contains a symlink.

EPSS: 2.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 83% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
Published: 2006-05-12
Modified: 2026-06-16
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

apple:mac_os_x
apple:mac_os_x_server

References

http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2006/May/msg00003.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/20077
http://securitytracker.com/id?1016069
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/519473
http://www.osvdb.org/25598

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