CVE-2009-2810: Apple Mac OS X

Medium severity, CVSS 6.8. EPSS: 2.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Launch Services in Apple Mac OS X 10.6.x before 10.6.2 recursively clears quarantine information upon opening a quarantined folder, which allows user-assisted remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a quarantined application that does not trigger a "potentially unsafe" warning message.

Affected products

• Apple Mac OS X: version 10.6 only; version 10.6.1 only
• Apple Mac OS X Server: version 10.6 only; version 10.6.1 only

Published 2009-11-10. Last modified 2026-06-16.