CVE-2008-7303

Severity: high (CVSS 7.6 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2011-11-15 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-264

Description

The nonet and nointernet sandbox profiles in Apple Mac OS X 10.5.x do not propagate restrictions to all created processes, which allows remote attackers to access network resources via a crafted application, as demonstrated by use of launchctl to trigger the launchd daemon's execution of a script file, a related issue to CVE-2011-1516.

Affected products

macOS: 10.5.0, 10.5.1, 10.5.2, 10.5.3, 10.5.4, 10.5.5 (+3)

References

http://www.coresecurity.com/content/apple-osx-sandbox-bypass
https://www.blackhat.com/presentations/bh-jp-08/bh-jp-08-Miller/BlackHat-Japan-08-Miller-Hacking-OSX.pdf
http://www.coresecurity.com/content/apple-osx-sandbox-bypass
https://www.blackhat.com/presentations/bh-jp-08/bh-jp-08-Miller/BlackHat-Japan-08-Miller-Hacking-OSX.pdf

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