CVE-2007-2388

Severity: critical (CVSS 9.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 6.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2007-05-29 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-264

Description

Apple QuickTime for Java 7.1.6 on Mac OS X and Windows does not properly restrict QTObject subclassing, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a web page containing a user-defined class that accesses unsafe functions that can be leveraged to write to arbitrary memory locations.

Affected products

Apple Installer of QuickTime for Windows: 7.1.6

References

http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2007/May/msg00005.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/25130
http://secunia.com/secunia_research/2007-52/advisory/
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/995836
http://www.osvdb.org/35576
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/24221
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1018136
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/1974
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2007/May/msg00005.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/25130
http://secunia.com/secunia_research/2007-52/advisory/
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/995836

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