CVE-2007-6165

no score yetEPSS 45%

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.

EPSS: 45% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 98% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWEs: CWE-20, CWE-264
Published: 2007-11-29
Modified: 2026-06-16
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

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
http://secunia.com/advisories/28136
http://securitytracker.com/id?1019106

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