Predictive Vulnerability Intelligence.

Product

  • Product
  • Pricing
  • Documentation

Company

  • About
  • Partnerships
  • Blog
  • Support

Legal

  • Terms
  • Privacy
  • Data Licensing

© 2026 FAUCET Technologies LLC. All rights reserved.

CVE-2006-3497

16
FAUCET Score

CVE-2006-3497 describes an unspecified vulnerability in the "compression state handling" within Bom for Apple Mac OS X 10.3.9 and 10.4.7. This flaw allows user-assisted attackers to trigger a denial of service (application crash) and potentially execute arbitrary code through a specially crafted Zip archive. With a CVSS score of 5.1, this vulnerability has a network attack vector and high attack complexity, leading to potential partial impacts on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, no known public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), and minimal community discussion or media coverage, suggesting it is not a widely targeted threat.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
10.3.9CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:apple:mac_os_x:10.3.9:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
10.4.7CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:apple:mac_os_x:10.4.7:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
10.3.9CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:apple:mac_os_x_server:10.3.9:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
10.4.7CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:apple:mac_os_x_server:10.4.7:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

5.1MEDIUM

AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
HIGH
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
4.9
Impact Score
6.4
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
3.86%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
89.1%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0386 is in the 85th percentile among its peer group of 19,958 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

lists.apple.com / archives/security-announce/2006//Aug/msg00000.html
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/21253
PatchVendor Advisory
kb.cert.org / vuls/id/514740
US Government Resource
osvdb.org / 27735
securityfocus.com / bid/19289
ExploitPatch
us-cert.gov / cas/techalerts/TA06-214A.html
US Government Resource
vupen.com / english/advisories/2006/3101
Vendor Advisory