CVE-2007-0023
The CFUserNotificationSendRequest function in UserNotificationCenter.app in Apple Mac OS X 10.4.8, when used in combination with diskutil,…
- 6.9MediumCVSS base score
- 1.6%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 24% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- 1Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
Description
The CFUserNotificationSendRequest function in UserNotificationCenter.app in Apple Mac OS X 10.4.8, when used in combination with diskutil, allows local users to gain privileges via a malicious InputManager in Library/InputManagers in a user's home directory, which is executed when Cocoa applications attempt to notify the user.
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 10.4.8 - 'UserNotificationCenter' Local Privilege Escalation (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 3181local, osxpublished 23 Jan 2007Verified
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
- 22 days later
· 22 days 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 | Medium6.9 | AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.6% · top 24% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.9.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
12
- 32695 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDBx_transferred
- APPLE-SA-2007-02-15 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_APPLEx_transferred
- TA07-047A (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERTx_transferred
- 24198 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=305102 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- macos-inputmanager-privilege-escalation(31676) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- 1017542 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- VU#315856 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERT-VNx_transferred
- http://projects.info-pull.com/moab/MOAB-22-01-2007.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- 23846 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- ADV-2007-0074 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- 22188 (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-2007-0027 (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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