CVE-2011-1516: Apple Mac OS X

High severity, CVSS 7.6. EPSS: 3.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The kSBXProfileNoNetwork and kSBXProfileNoInternet sandbox profiles in Apple Mac OS X 10.5.x through 10.7.x do not propagate restrictions to all created processes, which allows remote attackers to access network resources via a crafted application, as demonstrated by use of osascript to send Apple events to the launchd daemon, a related issue to CVE-2008-7303.

Affected products

• Apple Mac OS X: version 10.5.0 only; version 10.5.1 only; version 10.5.2 only; version 10.5.3 only; version 10.5.4 only; version 10.5.5 only; …

Published 2011-11-15. Last modified 2026-06-16.