CVE-2006-5327: Apple Xcode

High severity, CVSS 7.2. EPSS: 0.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Untrusted search path vulnerability in OpenBase SQL 10.0 and earlier, as used in Apple Xcode 2.2 2.2 and earlier and possibly other products, allows local users to execute arbitrary code via a modified PATH that references a malicious gzip program, which is executed by gnutar with certain TAR_OPTIONS environment variable settings, when gnutar is invoked by OpenBase.

Affected products

• Apple Xcode: up to and including 2.2
• Openbase International Ltd Openbase: up to and including 10.0; version 7.0.15 only; version 8.0.4 only; version 9.1.5 only

Published 2006-10-17. Last modified 2026-06-16.