THREATPORT/VULNERABILITY/CVE-2005-2743
HIGH SEVERITY

CVE-2005-2743

Quicktime vulnerability

CVSS
7.5
EPSS
4.7%
EPSS pct
91th
Exploited
No known
The Java extensions for QuickTime 6.52 and earlier in Apple Mac OS X 10.3.9 allow untrusted applets to call arbitrary functions in system libraries, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code.
Affected vendor
Apple
Affected product
Quicktime
CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Published
2005-10-26

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low attack complexity, requiring no authentication. Successful exploitation leads to partial impact to confidentiality, partial impact to integrity, partial impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 4.7% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 91% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2005-2743

  • Confirm whether Apple Quicktime is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2005-2743.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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