High 7.5Published Mar 14, 2006

CVE-2006-0398Unspecified vulnerability in Safari, LaunchServices, and/or CoreTypes in Apple Mac OS X 10.4 up to 10.4.5 allows attackers to trick a user into opening an application that appears to be a safe file t…

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Unspecified vulnerability in Safari, LaunchServices, and/or CoreTypes in Apple Mac OS X 10.4 up to 10.4.5 allows attackers to trick a user into opening an application that appears to be a safe file type. NOTE: due to the lack of specific information in the vendor advisory, it is not clear how CVE-2006-0397, CVE-2006-0398, and CVE-2006-0399 are different.

CVSS: 7.5 HIGH (v2.0, NVD)AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Weakness (CWE): CWE-94
Known exploited: Not in CISA's KEV catalog
EPSS (exploitation in the next 30 days): Not loaded for this CVE
Assigned by: Not given
NVD analysis: Modified
Record last updated: Jun 16, 2026
First seen by InfoSec Signals: Nov 1, 2026

Affected products

Affected products

apple mac_os_x apple:mac_os_x	10.4; 10.4.1; 10.4.2; 10.4.3; 10.4.4; 10.4.5	NVD
apple mac_os_x_server apple:mac_os_x_server	10.4; 10.4.1; 10.4.2; 10.4.3; 10.4.4; 10.4.5	NVD

References

References

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=303453
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2006/Mar/msg00001.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/19129	patch, vendor-advisory
http://securitytracker.com/id?1015760
http://www.osvdb.org/23870
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/0949
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/25269

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