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CVE-2010-0500

Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
CWE-20 Input Validation
Publication date:
30/03/2010
Last modified:
11/04/2025

Description

Event Monitor in Apple Mac OS X before 10.6.3 does not properly validate hostnames of SSH clients, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (arbitrary client blacklisting) via a crafted DNS PTR record, related to a "plist injection issue."

Impact

Vector 2.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 7.80 HIGH
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Authentication (Au): None
Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): None
Availability (A): Complete

Base Score 2.0
7.80
Severity 2.0
HIGH

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE From Up to
cpe:2.3:o:apple:mac_os_x:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 10.6.2 (including)
cpe:2.3:o:apple:mac_os_x:10.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:apple:mac_os_x:10.5.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:apple:mac_os_x:10.5.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:apple:mac_os_x:10.5.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:apple:mac_os_x:10.5.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:apple:mac_os_x:10.5.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:apple:mac_os_x:10.5.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:apple:mac_os_x:10.5.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:apple:mac_os_x:10.5.7:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:apple:mac_os_x:10.5.8:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:apple:mac_os_x:10.6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:apple:mac_os_x:10.6.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:apple:mac_os_x_server:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 10.6.2 (including)
cpe:2.3:o:apple:mac_os_x_server:10.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

To consult the complete list of CPE names with products and versions, see this page


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