CVE-2010-0497: Apple Mac OS X

Medium severity, CVSS 6.8. EPSS: 2.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Disk Images in Apple Mac OS X before 10.6.3 does not provide the expected warning for an unsafe file type in an internet enabled disk image, which makes it easier for user-assisted remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a package file type.

Affected products

• Apple Mac OS X: up to and including 10.6.2; version 10.5 only; version 10.5.0 only; version 10.5.1 only; version 10.5.2 only; version 10.5.3 only; …
• Apple Mac OS X Server: up to and including 10.6.2; version 10.5 only; version 10.5.0 only; version 10.5.1 only; version 10.5.2 only; version 10.5.3 only; …

Published 2010-03-30. Last modified 2026-06-16.