CVE-2005-1579: Apple Quicktime

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Apple QuickTime Player 7.0 on Mac OS X 10.4 allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information via a .mov file with a Quartz Composer composition (.qtz) file that uses certain patches to read local information, then other patches to send the information to the attacker.

Affected products

• Apple Quicktime: version 7.0 only

Published 2005-05-12. Last modified 2026-06-16.