THREATPORT/VULNERABILITY/CVE-2005-4092
HIGH SEVERITY

CVE-2005-4092

Itunes vulnerability

CVSS
7.5
EPSS
8.8%
EPSS pct
95th
Exploited
No known
Multiple heap-based buffer overflows in QuickTime.qts in Apple QuickTime Player 7.0.3 and iTunes 6.0.1 (3) and earlier allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and execute arbitrary code via a .mov file with (1) a Movie Resource atom with a large size value, or (2) an stsd atom with a modified Sample Description Table size value, and possibly other vectors involving media files. NOTE: item 1 was originally identified by CVE-2005-4127 for a pre-patch announcement, and item 2 was originally identified by CVE-2005-4128 for a pre-patch announcement.
Affected vendor
Apple
Affected product
Itunes
CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Weakness type (CWE)
  • CWE-119 — Improper Restriction of Operations within Memory Bounds
Published
2005-12-08

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 8.8% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 95% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2005-4092

  • Confirm whether Apple Itunes is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2005-4092.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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