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CVE-2005-2756
Apple QuickTime before 7.0.3 allows user-assisted attackers to overwrite memory and execute arbitrary code via a crafted PICT file that…
- 5.1MediumCVSS base score
- 4.2%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 8.9% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
Apple QuickTime before 7.0.3 allows user-assisted attackers to overwrite memory and execute arbitrary code via a crafted PICT file that triggers an overflow during expansion.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 2 months later
· 2 months later
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 | Medium5.1 | AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 4.2% · top 8.9% 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
10
- VU#855118 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERT-VNx_transferred
- 20478 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDBx_transferred
- 1015152 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=302772 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 17428 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 144 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SREASONx_transferred
- http://pb.specialised.info/all/adv/quicktime-pict-adv.txt (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- 20051104 Advisory: Apple QuickTime PICT Remote Memory Overwrite (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- ADV-2005-2293 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- 15309 (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-2005-2757 (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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