Vulnerability in Apple Mac OS X

CVE-2004-0486

HelpViewer in Mac OS X 10.3.3 and 10.2.8 processes scripts that it did not initiate, which can allow attackers to execute arbitrary code, an issue that was originally reported as a directory traversal vulnerability in the Safari web browser using the runscript parameter in a help: URI handler.

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CVSS v2 metric

CVSS v2 base score 7.6 (High). Vector: AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.097 (95.5th percentile), scored .

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 95th percentile — 95.5% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS trend (30 days)EPSS over the last 30 days for CVE-2004-0486: held from 0.097 to 0.097.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.097 · newest: 0.097 · change: 0.000

Affected products

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