Buffer overflow in Apple Airport Extreme
CVE-2007-0734
fsck, as used by the AirPort Disk feature of the AirPort Extreme Base Station with 802.11n before Firmware Update 7.1, and by Apple Mac OS X 10.3.9 through 10.4.9, does not properly enforce password protection of a USB hard drive, which allows context-dependent attackers to list arbitrary directories or execute arbitrary code, resulting from memory corruption.
Vulnerability class: Buffer Overflow
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 5.4 (Medium). Vector: AV:A/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.008 (54.7th percentile), scored .
Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 55th percentile — 54.7% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.008 · newest: 0.008 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Apple Airport Extreme
- Apple Mac OS X — versions 10.3.9, 10.4, 10.4.1
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- secunia.com/advisories/24830 (Vendor Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/24966 (Vendor Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/23396 (vdb-entry)
- exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/33527 (vdb-entry)
- docs.info.apple.com/article.html
- www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/1308 (vdb-entry, Vendor Advisory)
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/23569 (vdb-entry)
- lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2007/Apr/msg00000.html (vendor-advisory, Vendor Advisory)
- www.securitytracker.com/id (vdb-entry)
- www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA07-109A.html (US Government Resource, third-party-advisory)