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CVE-2007-6165

CRITICAL CVSS: 9.3 Published: 2007-11-29 Modified: 2026-06-16

Description

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.

Affected Platforms

Apple Mac Os X

Weakness Type

CWE-20, CWE-264

References