CVE-2007-0023

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.9 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2007-01-24 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

The CFUserNotificationSendRequest function in UserNotificationCenter.app in Apple Mac OS X 10.4.8, when used in combination with diskutil, allows local users to gain privileges via a malicious InputManager in Library/InputManagers in a user's home directory, which is executed when Cocoa applications attempt to notify the user.

Affected products

macOS: 10.4.8

References

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=305102
http://lists.apple.com/archives/Security-announce/2007/Feb/msg00000.html
http://projects.info-pull.com/moab/MOAB-22-01-2007.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/23846
http://secunia.com/advisories/24198
http://securitytracker.com/id?1017542
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/315856
http://www.osvdb.org/32695
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/22188
http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA07-047A.html
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/0074
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/31676

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