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CVE-2004-1398
Format string vulnerability in prelink.c in kextload in Apple OS X, as used by TDIXSupport in Roxio Toast Titanium and possibly other…
- 4.6MediumCVSS base score
- 0.41%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 65% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
Format string vulnerability in prelink.c in kextload in Apple OS X, as used by TDIXSupport in Roxio Toast Titanium and possibly other products, allows local users to execute arbitrary code via format string specifiers in the extension argument.
Timeline
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Published
- 19 years later
· 19 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 | Medium4.6 | AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.41% · top 65% 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 4.6.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
6
- 20031 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- http://www.netragard.com/pdfs/research/apple-kext-tools-20060822.txt (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- roxio-toast-tdixsupport-format-string(18472) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- 20060913 [NETRAGARD-20060822 SECURITY ADVISORY] [ APPLE COMPUTER CORPORATION KEXTLOAD VULNERABILITY + ROXIO TOAST TITANUM 7 HELPER APP - LOCAL ROOT COMROMISE] (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_FULLDISCx_transferred
- 20041214 Possible local root vulnerability in Roxio Toast on Mac OS X (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- 11926 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_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-2004-1395 (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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