CVE-2007-0059

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 5.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2007-01-05 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Cross-zone scripting vulnerability in Apple Quicktime 3 to 7.1.3 allows remote user-assisted attackers to execute arbitrary code and list filesystem contents via a QuickTime movie (.MOV) with an HREF Track (HREFTrack) that contains an automatic action tag with a local URI, which is executed in a local zone during preview, as exploited by a MySpace worm.

Affected products

Apple Installer of QuickTime for Windows: through 7.1.3; 3.0

References

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=305149
http://lists.apple.com/archives/Security-announce/2007/Mar/msg00000.html
http://osvdb.org/31164
http://projects.info-pull.com/moab/MOAB-03-01-2007.html
http://www.gnucitizen.org/blog/backdooring-quicktime-movies/
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/304064
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=305149
http://lists.apple.com/archives/Security-announce/2007/Mar/msg00000.html
http://osvdb.org/31164
http://projects.info-pull.com/moab/MOAB-03-01-2007.html
http://www.gnucitizen.org/blog/backdooring-quicktime-movies/
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/304064

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