CVE-2005-2516

Severity

75%

Complexity

99%

Confidentiality

106%

Safari in Mac OS X 10.3.9 and 10.4.2, when rendering Rich Text Format (RTF) files, can directly access URLs without performing the normal security checks, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands.

Safari in Mac OS X 10.3.9 and 10.4.2, when rendering Rich Text Format (RTF) files, can directly access URLs without performing the normal security checks, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 7.5. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P).

Overview

Type

Apple

First reported 19 years ago

2005-08-19 04:00:00

Last updated 16 years ago

2008-09-05 20:51:00

Affected Software

Apple Safari

Apple Mac OS X 10.3.9

10.3.9

Apple Mac OS X 10.4.2

10.4.2

References

APPLE-SA-2005-08-17

Patch, Vendor Advisory

APPLE-SA-2005-08-15

Patch, Vendor Advisory

VU#709220

Patch, Third Party Advisory, US Government Resource

TA05-229A

Patch, Third Party Advisory, US Government Resource

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