CVE Catalog

CVE-2005-1933

High
Published: Translated: NVD NIST

Summary

Vulnerability in Dashboard in Apple Mac OS X Tiger 10.4 allows attackers to execute arbitrary commands by overriding the behavior of system widgets via a user widget with the same bundle identifier (CFBundleIdentifier). This is a different vulnerability than CVE-2005-1474.

Risk Assessment

The risk involves the possibility of remote or local execution of unauthorized commands on the system, which could lead to device takeover or data theft.

Recommendation

It is recommended to immediately update the system to a version where this vulnerability is fixed, and avoid installing untrusted user widgets.

Related vulnerabilities

Original NVD description (English source)

Dashboard in Apple Mac OS X Tiger 10.4 allows attackers to execute arbitrary commands by overriding the behavior of system widgets via a user widget with the same bundle identifier (CFBundleIdentifier), a different vulnerability than CVE-2005-1474.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS