CVE-2006-3497

Mac Os X vulnerability

CVSS

5.1

EPSS

3.9%

EPSS pct

89th

Exploited

No known

Unspecified vulnerability in the "compression state handling" in Bom for Apple Mac OS X 10.3.9 and 10.4.7 allows user-assisted attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted Zip archive.

Affected vendor

Apple

Affected product

Mac Os X

CVSS vector

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

Published

2006-08-02

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 3.9% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 89% of all scored CVEs.

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