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CVE-2005-2516

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 4.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2005-08-19 · updated 2026-06-16

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.

Affected products

• macOS: 10.3.9, 10.4.2
• Apple Safari: all versions

References

• http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2005//Aug/msg00001.html
• http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2005/Aug/msg00000.html
• http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/709220
• http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA05-229A.html
• http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2005//Aug/msg00001.html
• http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2005/Aug/msg00000.html
• http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/709220
• http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA05-229A.html

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