Vulnerability in Apple Mac OS X

CVE-2007-5847

Race condition in the CFURLWriteDataAndPropertiesToResource API in Core Foundation in Apple Mac OS X 10.4.11 creates files with insecure permissions, which might allow local users to obtain sensitive information.

Vulnerability class: Race Condition

Published · last modified .

CVSS v2 metric

CVSS v2 base score 6.6 (Medium). Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:N. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.003 (15.4th percentile), scored .

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 15th percentile — 15.4% 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-2007-5847: held from 0.003 to 0.003.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.003 · newest: 0.003 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Weakness classification (CWE)

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