What is CVE-2005-1260?

CVE-2005-1260 is a vulnerability in Apple Mac OS X, classified under Uncontrolled Resource Consumption. Published 2005-05-19.

Is CVE-2005-1260 known to be exploited?

1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

Resource exhaustion in Apple Mac OS X

CVE-2005-1260

bzip2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (hard drive consumption) via a crafted bzip2 file that causes an infinite loop (a.k.a "decompression bomb").

Vulnerability class: DoS (Denial of Service)

Published 2005-05-19 · last modified 2026-06-16.

CVSS v2 metric

CVSS v2 base score 5.0 (Medium). Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.062 (93.2th percentile), scored 2026-09-29.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 93rd percentile — 93.2% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.062 · newest: 0.062 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Apple Mac OS X
Bzip Bzip2
Canonical Ubuntu Linux — versions 4.10, 5.04
Debian Linux — versions 3.0, 3.1

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-400 — Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

Public proof-of-concept exploits

phonito/phonito-vulnerable-container

References

www.fedoralegacy.org/updates/FC2/2005-11-14-FLSA_2005_158801__Updated_bzip2_pac… (Permissions Required, vendor-advisory)
usn.ubuntu.com/127-1/ (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
www.securityfocus.com/bid/13657 (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry)
www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-741 (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
www.securityfocus.com/bid/26444 (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry)
secunia.com/advisories/15447 (Third Party Advisory, third-party-advisory)
oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10700 (signature, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry)
secunia.com/advisories/27274 (Third Party Advisory, third-party-advisory)
sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do (vendor-advisory, Broken Link)
oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval:org.mitre.oval:def:749 (signature, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2005-1260?: CVE-2005-1260 is a vulnerability in Apple Mac OS X, classified under Uncontrolled Resource Consumption. Published 2005-05-19.
Is CVE-2005-1260 known to be exploited?: 1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.