CVE-2007-2386
Buffer overflow in mDNSResponder in Apple Mac OS X 10.4 up to 10.4.9 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application…
- 9.4HighCVSS base score
- 50.0%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 1.1% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- 2Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
Description
Buffer overflow in mDNSResponder in Apple Mac OS X 10.4 up to 10.4.9 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application termination) or execute arbitrary code via a crafted UPnP Internet Gateway Device (IGD) packet.
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 an Exploit-DB entry for it.
Show the exploits2
Metasploit modules1 module
- Mac OS X mDNSResponder UPnP Location Overflow (Metasploit module) (opens in a new tab)
exploit/osx/mdns/upnp_locationRank averagedisclosed 25 May 2007
Exploit-DB1 entry
- Apple Mac OSX - mDNSResponder UPnP Location Overflow (Metasploit) (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 16871remote, osxpublished 8 Jan 2011Verified
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
- 24 days later
· 24 days later
Published
- 17 years later
· 17 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 | High9.4 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:N/A:C |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 50.0% · top 1.1% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 9.4.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
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- http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=305530 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 24159 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- ADV-2007-1939 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- VU#221876 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERT-VNx_transferred
- APPLE-SA-2007-05-24 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_APPLEx_transferred
- 25402 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 35142 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDBx_transferred
- APPLE-SA-2007-06-20 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_APPLEx_transferred
- ADV-2007-2269 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- 24144 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- macos-mdnsresponder-upnp-bo(34493) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- 1018123 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- 25745 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_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-2007-2381 (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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