CVE-2009-2810 — Launch Services in Apple Mac OS X 10.6.x before 10.6.2 recursively clears quarantine information upon opening a quarantined folder, which allows user-assisted remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a quarantined application that does not trigger a "potentially unsafe" warning message

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Launch Services in Apple Mac OS X 10.6.x before 10.6.2 recursively clears quarantine information upon opening a quarantined folder, which allows user-assisted remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a quarantined application that does not trigger a "potentially unsafe" warning message

Published Nov 10, 2009

6.8

MEDIUM

CVSS 2.0

EPSS 2.90%

Description

Launch Services in Apple Mac OS X 10.6.x before 10.6.2 recursively clears quarantine information upon opening a quarantined folder, which allows user-assisted remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a quarantined application that does not trigger a "potentially unsafe" warning message.

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Metrics

2.90% 0.02899

Estimated probability of exploitation in the wild in the next 30 days (FIRST EPSS). As of Oct 2, 2026.

EPSS probability 0.02899

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 (12 key points)

Flat stretches are collapsed; showing up to 120 newest points.

Date	Score	Percentile	Model
Oct 2, 2026	2.90% (0.02899)	86.47th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Jun 15, 2026	2.90% (0.02899)	85.08th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Mar 17, 2025	1.48% (0.01480)	79.67th	v4 (v2025.03.14)
Dec 12, 2024	1.05% (0.01053)	84.70th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 29, 2024	1.05% (0.01053)	83.73th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 14, 2024	0.94% (0.00939)	82.68th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 7, 2023	0.94% (0.00939)	80.68th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 6, 2023	4.93% (0.04935)	89.45th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Jul 18, 2022	4.93% (0.04935)	88.80th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Jul 17, 2022	6.31% (0.06309)	90.50th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Apr 1, 2022	4.93% (0.04935)	88.39th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Feb 4, 2022	4.93% (0.04935)	74.87th	v2 (v2022.01.01)

Weaknesses (0)

No CWE recorded.

References (4)

http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2009/Nov/msg00000.html
vendor-advisoryx_refsource_APPLEVendor Advisory
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3937
x_refsource_CONFIRMPatchVendor Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/36956
vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDPatch
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/3184
vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPEN

Link	Providers	Tags
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2009/Nov/msg00000.html		vendor-advisoryx_refsource_APPLEVendor Advisory
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3937		x_refsource_CONFIRMPatchVendor Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/36956		vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDPatch
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/3184		vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPEN

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources

CVE.org / MITRE

Status PUBLISHED

Assigner mitre

Published Nov 10, 2009

Updated Aug 7, 2024

Reserved Aug 17, 2009

Link CVE-2009-2810

CISA Vulnrichment

Updated n/a

NVD

Status Modified

Modified Jun 16, 2026

Link CVE-2009-2810

Red Hat

Severity n/a

Public date n/a

Links CVE-2009-2810