CVE-2010-0055

Severity: critical (CVSS 10.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2010-03-30 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

xar in Apple Mac OS X 10.5.8 does not properly validate package signatures, which allows attackers to have an unspecified impact via a modified package.

Affected products

macOS: 10.5.8
Apple Mac Os X Server: 10.5.8

References

http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2010//Mar/msg00001.html
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4077
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/WXQ3NRRTC4A3F3GW2RQNATJHYDIRSCBS/
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2010//Mar/msg00001.html
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4077
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/WXQ3NRRTC4A3F3GW2RQNATJHYDIRSCBS/

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