CVE-2005-2516: Apple Mac OS X

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 4.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Safari in Mac OS X 10.3.9 and 10.4.2, when rendering Rich Text Format (RTF) files, can directly access URLs without performing the normal security checks, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands.

Affected products

• Apple Mac OS X: version 10.3.9 only; version 10.4.2 only
• Apple Safari: any version

Published 2005-08-19. Last modified 2026-06-16.