CVE-2006-1440: Apple Mac OS X

Low severity, CVSS 2.1. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

BOM in Apple Mac OS X 10.3.9 and 10.4.6 allows attackers to overwrite arbitrary files via an archive that contains symbolic links.

Affected products

• Apple Mac OS X: version 10.3.9 only; version 10.4.6 only

Published 2006-05-12. Last modified 2026-06-16.