fsck, as used by the AirPort Disk feature of the AirPort Extreme Base Station with 802.11n before Firmware Update 7.1, and by Apple Mac OS X 10.3.9 through 10.4.9, does not properly enforce password protection of a USB hard drive, which allows context-dependent attackers to list arbitrary directories or execute arbitrary code, resulting from memory corruption
Published Apr 10, 2007
5.4
MEDIUMCVSS 2.0
EPSS 0.80%
Description
fsck, as used by the AirPort Disk feature of the AirPort Extreme Base Station with 802.11n before Firmware Update 7.1, and by Apple Mac OS X 10.3.9 through 10.4.9, does not properly enforce password protection of a USB hard drive, which allows context-dependent attackers to list arbitrary directories or execute arbitrary code, resulting from memory corruption.
Affected products
No data.
Running on/with
- ≤ 7.0
No data.
No Red Hat product state for this CVE.
No package ranges for this CVE.
Remediation
No remediation recorded yet.
Metrics
No CVSS v4.0 score for this CVE.
No CVSS v3.1 score for this CVE.
No CVSS v3.0 score for this CVE.
AV:A/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
This CVE is not in the KEV list.
No CISA SSVC assessment for this CVE yet.
Estimated probability of exploitation in the wild in the next 30 days (FIRST EPSS). As of Oct 1, 2026.
Score over time
2022–2026- EPSS v2
- EPSS v3
- EPSS v4
- EPSS v5
Percentile over time
- EPSS v2
- EPSS v3
- EPSS v4
- EPSS v5
Table of values (11 key points)
Flat stretches are collapsed; showing up to 120 newest points.
| Date | Score | Percentile | Model |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 1, 2026 | 0.80% (0.00796) | 54.86th | v5 (v2026.06.15) |
| Jun 15, 2026 | 0.80% (0.00796) | 51.49th | v5 (v2026.06.15) |
| Mar 17, 2025 | 0.43% (0.00434) | 60.72th | v4 (v2025.03.14) |
| Dec 12, 2024 | 0.74% (0.00738) | 81.49th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Mar 21, 2024 | 0.74% (0.00738) | 80.42th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Oct 21, 2023 | 0.68% (0.00678) | 77.64th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Sep 12, 2023 | 0.52% (0.00519) | 73.91th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Mar 7, 2023 | 0.50% (0.00501) | 72.67th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Mar 6, 2023 | 3.01% (0.03009) | 83.59th | v2 (v2022.01.01) |
| Apr 1, 2022 | 3.01% (0.03009) | 81.92th | v2 (v2022.01.01) |
| Feb 4, 2022 | 3.01% (0.03009) | 64.41th | v2 (v2022.01.01) |
References (14)
- http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=305366 x_refsource_CONFIRMPatchVendor Advisory
- http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=305391 x_refsource_CONFIRM
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/Security-announce/2007/Apr/msg00001.html vendor-advisoryx_refsource_APPLE
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2007/Apr/msg00000.html vendor-advisoryx_refsource_APPLEVendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/24830 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAVendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/24966 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAVendor Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/23396 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/23569 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1017889 vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1017942 vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK
- http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA07-109A.html third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERTUS Government Resource
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/1308 vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENVendor Advisory
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/1470 vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENVendor Advisory
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/33527 vdb-entryx_refsource_XF
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