CVE-2007-4704 describes a critical vulnerability in the Application Firewall of Apple Mac OS X 10.5, where changes to firewall settings are not immediately applied to processes initiated by launchd until those processes are restarted. This flaw could allow attackers to bypass intended access restrictions, leading to complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. With a CVSS score of 10.0, this vulnerability is highly severe, easily exploitable over a network with no authentication required. Despite its critical nature, there is no known public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), it is not listed on the KEV catalog, and it has received no community discussion or media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
10.5CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:apple:mac_os_x:10.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
No social media mentions found for this CVE.
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No media coverage found for this CVE.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.