CVE-2011-0178: Apple Carboncore

Low severity, CVSS 2.1. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The FSFindFolder API in CarbonCore in Apple Mac OS X before 10.6.7 provides a world-readable directory in response to a call with the kTemporaryFolderType flag, which allows local users to obtain potentially sensitive information by accessing this directory.

Affected products

• Apple Carboncore: any version
• Apple Mac OS X: up to and including 10.6.6; version 10.6.0 only; version 10.6.1 only; version 10.6.2 only; version 10.6.3 only; version 10.6.4 only; …
• Apple Mac OS X Server: up to and including 10.6.6; version 10.6.0 only; version 10.6.1 only; version 10.6.2 only; version 10.6.3 only; version 10.6.4 only; …

Published 2011-03-23. Last modified 2026-06-16.