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CVE-2007-4703

The Application Firewall in Apple Mac OS X 10.5 does not prevent a root process from accepting incoming connections, even when "Block incoming connections" has been set for its associated executable, which might allow remote attackers or local root processes to bypass intended access restrictions.

Published

2007-11-15T20:46:00.000

Last Modified

2025-04-09T00:30:58.490

Status

Deferred

Source

[email protected]

Severity

CVSSv2: 10.0 (HIGH)

CVSSv2 Vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Access Vector: NETWORK
Access Complexity: LOW
Authentication: NONE
Confidentiality Impact: COMPLETE
Integrity Impact: COMPLETE
Availability Impact: COMPLETE

Exploitability Score

10.0

Impact Score

10.0

Weaknesses

Type: Primary
NVD-CWE-Other

Affected Vendors & Products

Type	Vendor	Product	Version/Range	Vulnerable?
Operating System	apple	mac_os_x	10.5	Yes
Operating System	apple	mac_os_x_server	10.5	Yes

References

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=307004 Patch ([email protected])
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2007/Nov/msg00004.html Patch ([email protected])
http://secunia.com/advisories/27695 Vendor Advisory ([email protected])
http://securitytracker.com/id?1018958 ([email protected])
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26460 ([email protected])
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3897 Vendor Advisory ([email protected])
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/38479 ([email protected])
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=307004 Patch (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2007/Nov/msg00004.html Patch (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://secunia.com/advisories/27695 Vendor Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://securitytracker.com/id?1018958 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26460 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3897 Vendor Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/38479 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)