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CVE-2010-0059

23
FAUCET Score

CVE-2010-0059 describes a buffer overflow vulnerability in CoreAudio within Apple Mac OS X prior to version 10.6.3, affecting both client and server editions. This flaw allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service through memory corruption and application crashes when processing crafted audio content with QDM2 encoding. With a CVSS score of 6.8, this vulnerability is of medium severity, requiring moderate attack complexity but no authentication, and potentially leading to partial confidentiality, integrity, and availability impacts. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
10.6.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:apple:mac_os_x:10.6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
10.6.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:apple:mac_os_x:10.6.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
10.6.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:apple:mac_os_x:10.6.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
10.6.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:apple:mac_os_x_server:10.6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
10.6.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:apple:mac_os_x_server:10.6.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

6.8MEDIUM

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

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
8.6
Impact Score
6.4
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
4.57%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
90.6%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0457 is in the 88th percentile among its peer group of 19,958 CVEs.

Social Chatter

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

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (1)

applepatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch

References

lists.apple.com / archives/security-announce/2010//Mar/msg00001.html
PatchVendor Advisory
lists.apple.com / archives/security-announce/2010//Mar/msg00002.html
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A6922
support.apple.com / kb/HT4077
PatchVendor Advisory
securityfocus.com / archive/1/510517/100/0/threaded
zerodayinitiative.com / advisories/ZDI-10-041