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CVE-2006-0848

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.1 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 58.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2006-02-22 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-16

Description

The "Open 'safe' files after downloading" option in Safari on Apple Mac OS X allows remote user-assisted attackers to execute arbitrary commands by tricking a user into downloading a __MACOSX folder that contains metadata (resource fork) that invokes the Terminal, which automatically interprets the script using bash, as demonstrated using a ZIP file that contains a script with a safe file extension.

Affected products

• macOS: 10.4.5
• Apple Mac Os X Server: 10.4.5

References

• http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=303382
• http://secunia.com/advisories/18963
• http://securitytracker.com/id?1015652
• http://www.frsirt.com/exploits/20060222.safari_safefiles_exec.pm.php
• http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/69862
• http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/999708
• http://www.mathematik.uni-ulm.de/numerik/staff/lehn/macosx.html
• http://www.osvdb.org/23510
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/16736
• http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA06-053A.html
• http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA06-062A.html
• http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/0671

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