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CVE-2007-4703
The Application Firewall in Apple Mac OS X 10.5 does not prevent a root process from accepting incoming connections, even when "Block…
- 10.0HighCVSS base score
- 2.6%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 15% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
The Application Firewall in Apple Mac OS X 10.5 does not prevent a root process from accepting incoming connections, even when "Block incoming connections" has been set for its associated executable, which might allow remote attackers or local root processes to bypass intended access restrictions.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 2 months later
· 2 months 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 | High10.0 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 2.6% · top 15% 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: High 10.0.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
7
- 27695 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- APPLE-SA-2007-11-15 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_APPLEx_transferred
- macosx-appfw-rootuid-bypass(38479) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- 26460 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- ADV-2007-3897 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=307004 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 1018958 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_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-2007-4685 (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-2007-4703)Record last updated .