6.8
CVSSv2

CVE-2009-2811

Published: 14/09/2009 Updated: 17/08/2017
CVSS v2 Base Score: 6.8 | Impact Score: 6.4 | Exploitability Score: 8.6
VMScore: 605
Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Vulnerability Summary

Incomplete blacklist vulnerability in Launch Services in Apple Mac OS X 10.5.8 allows user-assisted remote malicious users to execute arbitrary code via a .fileloc file, which does not trigger a "potentially unsafe" warning message in the Quarantine feature.

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Recent Articles

Apple tried to patch this security hole in macOS Finder but didn't consider upper and lowercase characters
The Register • Thomas Claburn in San Francisco • 22 Sep 2021

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Apple's macOS Finder application is currently vulnerable to a remote code execution bug, despite an apparent attempt to fix the problem. A security advisory published Tuesday by the SSD Secure Disclosure program, on behalf of researcher Park Minchan, explains that macOS Finder – which provides a visual interface for interacting with files – is vulnerable to documents with the .inetloc extension. "[T]hese files can be embedded inside emails which if the user clicks on them will execute the co...