CVE-2006-0395
The Download Validation in Mail in Mac OS X 10.4 does not properly recognize attachment file types to warn a user of an unsafe type, which…
- 5.1MediumCVSS base score
- 55.4%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 1.0% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- 3Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
Description
The Download Validation in Mail in Mac OS X 10.4 does not properly recognize attachment file types to warn a user of an unsafe type, which allows user-assisted remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via crafted file types.
Public exploit
An exploit or proof of concept is public: anyone can try it against an unpatched system. The public collections list a Metasploit module and 2 Exploit-DB entries for it.
Show the exploits3
Metasploit modules1 module
- Mail.app Image Attachment Command Execution (Metasploit module) (opens in a new tab)
exploit/osx/email/mailapp_image_execRank manualdisclosed 1 Mar 2006
Exploit-DB2 entries
- Apple Mail.app - Image Attachment Command Execution (Metasploit) (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 16870remote, multiplepublished 5 Mar 2011Verified
- Apple Mail.App 10.5.0 (OSX) - Image Attachment Command Execution (Metasploit) (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 9929remote, osxpublished 1 Mar 2006Verified
Modules, templates and exploits as listed by the Metasploit Framework (BSD-3-Clause), ProjectDiscovery's Nuclei templates (MIT) and the Exploit Database (GPLv2), read once a day. Where the data comes from
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 6 months later
· 6 months later
Published
- 18 years later
· 18 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)
- 55.4% · top 1.0% of all CVEs (12 Nov 2026)
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
References8
- macosx-mail-bypass-security(25027) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- 23645 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDBx_transferred
- 19064 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 16907 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- ADV-2006-0791 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- APPLE-SA-2006-03-01 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_APPLEx_transferred
- TA06-062A (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERTx_transferred
- http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=303382 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_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-2006-0402 (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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[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2006-0395)Record last updated .