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CVE-2005-1579

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2005-05-12 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Apple QuickTime Player 7.0 on Mac OS X 10.4 allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information via a .mov file with a Quartz Composer composition (.qtz) file that uses certain patches to read local information, then other patches to send the information to the attacker.

Affected products

• Apple Installer of QuickTime for Windows: 7.0

References

• http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2005-05/0265.html
• http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=301714
• http://lists.apple.com/archives/quartzcomposer-dev/2005/May/msg00250.html
• http://lists.apple.com/archives/quartzcomposer-dev/2005/May/msg00263.html
• http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2005/May/msg00006.html
• http://remahl.se/david/vuln/018
• http://secunia.com/advisories/15307
• http://securitytracker.com/id?1013961
• http://www.osvdb.org/16376
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/13603
• http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/0531
• http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2005-05/0265.html

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