CVE-2006-1454

Quicktime vulnerability

CVSS

5.1

EPSS

7.2%

EPSS pct

94th

Exploited

No known

Heap-based buffer overflow in Apple QuickTime before 7.1 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted QuickDraw PICT image format file with malformed image data.

Affected vendor

Apple

Affected product

Quicktime

CVSS vector

AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Weakness type (CWE)

CWE-119 — Improper Restriction of Operations within Memory Bounds

Published

2006-05-12

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, high 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 7.2% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 94% of all scored CVEs.

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Confirm whether Apple Quicktime is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2006-1454.
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