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CVE-2004-0431
Integer overflow in Apple QuickTime (QuickTime.qts) before 6.5.1 allows attackers to execute arbitrary code via a large "number of…
- 5.1MediumCVSS base score
- 3.2%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 12% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
Integer overflow in Apple QuickTime (QuickTime.qts) before 6.5.1 allows attackers to execute arbitrary code via a large "number of entries" field in the sample-to-chunk table data for a .mov movie file, which leads to a heap-based buffer overflow.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 6 days later
· 6 days later
Published
- 20 years later
· 20 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium5.1 | AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 3.2% · top 12% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.1.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
5
- APPLE-SA-2004-04-30 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_APPLEx_transferred
- 20040502 EEYE: Apple QuickTime (QuickTime.qts) Heap Overflow (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_NTBUGTRAQx_transferred
- quicktime-heap-bo(16026) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- VU#782958 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERT-VNx_transferred
- 20040502 EEYE: Apple QuickTime (QuickTime.qts) Heap Overflow (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2004-0430 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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