CVE-2007-0117: Apple Mac OS X

High severity, CVSS 10.0. EPSS: 5.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

DiskManagementTool in the DiskManagement.framework 92.29 on Mac OS X 10.4.8 does not properly validate Bill of Materials (BOM) files, which allows attackers to gain privileges via a BOM file under /Library/Receipts/, which triggers arbitrary file permission changes upon execution of a diskutil permission repair operation.

Affected products

  • Apple Mac OS X: version 10.4.8 only
  • Apple Mac OS X Server: version 10.4.8 only

Published 2007-01-09. Last modified 2026-06-16.