CVE-2005-2516

HighCVSS 7.5/10Last modified Jun 16, 2026

Description

Safari in Mac OS X 10.3.9 and 10.4.2, when rendering Rich Text Format (RTF) files, can directly access URLs without performing the normal security checks, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands.

Metrics

CVSS 2.0 7.5/10AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Affected software

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	n/a

References

http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2005//Aug/msg00001.htmlPatch, Vendor Advisory
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2005/Aug/msg00000.htmlPatch, Vendor Advisory
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/709220Patch, Third Party Advisory, US Government Resource
http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA05-229A.htmlPatch, Third Party Advisory, US Government Resource
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2005//Aug/msg00001.htmlPatch, Vendor Advisory
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2005/Aug/msg00000.htmlPatch, Vendor Advisory
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/709220Patch, Third Party Advisory, US Government Resource
http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA05-229A.htmlPatch, Third Party Advisory, US Government Resource

Timeline

Published: Aug 19, 2005
Last modified: Jun 16, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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