CVE-2007-0724: Apple Mac OS X

Medium severity, CVSS 6.9. EPSS: 0.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The IOKit HID interface in Apple Mac OS X 10.3.9 and 10.4 through 10.4.8 does not sufficiently limit access to certain controls, which allows local users to gain privileges by using HID device events to read keystrokes from the console.

Affected products

• Apple Mac OS X: version 10.3.9 only; version 10.4 only; version 10.4.1 only; version 10.4.2 only; version 10.4.3 only; version 10.4.4 only; …
• Apple Mac OS X Server: version 10.4 only; version 10.4.1 only; version 10.4.2 only; version 10.4.3 only; version 10.4.4 only; version 10.4.5 only; …

Published 2007-03-13. Last modified 2026-06-16.