CVE-2006-4866
Buffer overflow in kextload in Apple OS X, as used by TDIXSupport in Roxio Toast Titanium and possibly other products, allows local users…
- 4.6MediumCVSS base score
- 0.98%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 37% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- 1Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
Description
Buffer overflow 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 a long extension argument.
Public exploit
An exploit or proof of concept is public: anyone can try it against an unpatched system. The public collections list an Exploit-DB entry for it.
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Exploit-DB1 entry
- Apple Mac OSX 10.x - KExtLoad Buffer Overflow (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 28578dos, osxpublished 14 Sept 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
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 | Medium4.6 | AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.98% · top 37% of all CVEs (11 Nov 2026)
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
3
- 20034 (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
- 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
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-2006-4853 (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-2006-4866)Record last updated .