Vulnerability in Apple Mac OS X
CVE-2006-4408
The Security Framework in Apple Mac OS X 10.4 through 10.4.8 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (resource consumption) via certain public key values in an X.509 certificate that requires extra resources during signature verification. NOTE: this issue may be similar to CVE-2006-2940.
Published · last modified .
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: 0.018 (77.5th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 78th percentile — 77.5% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.018 · newest: 0.018 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Apple Mac OS X — versions 10.4, 10.4.1, 10.4.2
References
- www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4750 (vdb-entry)
- docs.info.apple.com/article.html
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/21335 (vdb-entry)
- www.osvdb.org/30730 (vdb-entry)
- securitytracker.com/id (vdb-entry)
- secunia.com/advisories/23155 (Vendor Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2006/Nov/msg00001.html (vendor-advisory)
- www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA06-333A.html (US Government Resource, third-party-advisory)