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.
Published 2007-11-29 01:46:00
Updated 2011-10-06 04:00:00
Source MITRE
View at NVD,   CVE.org
Vulnerability category: Input validationExecute code

Products affected by CVE-2007-6165

Threat overview for CVE-2007-6165

Top countries where our scanners detected CVE-2007-6165
Top open port discovered on systems with this issue 548
IPs affected by CVE-2007-6165 31
Threat actors abusing to this issue? Yes
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Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2007-6165

31.14%
Probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days EPSS Score History
~ 97 %
Percentile, the proportion of vulnerabilities that are scored at or less

Metasploit modules for CVE-2007-6165

  • Mail.app Image Attachment Command Execution
    Disclosure Date: 2006-03-01
    First seen: 2020-04-26
    exploit/osx/email/mailapp_image_exec
    This module exploits a command execution vulnerability in the Mail.app application shipped with Mac OS X 10.5.0. This flaw was patched in 10.4 in March of 2007, but reintroduced into the final release of 10.5. Authors: - hdm <x@hdm.io> - kf <kf_list@digi

CVSS scores for CVE-2007-6165

Base Score Base Severity CVSS Vector Exploitability Score Impact Score Score Source First Seen
9.3
HIGH AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
8.6
10.0
NIST

CWE ids for CVE-2007-6165

  • The product receives input or data, but it does not validate or incorrectly validates that the input has the properties that are required to process the data safely and correctly.
    Assigned by: nvd@nist.gov (Primary)
  • Assigned by: nvd@nist.gov (Primary)
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