Upstream information
Description
An issue was discovered in certain Apple products. macOS before 10.13 is affected. The issue involves the third-party "file" product. Versions before 5.30 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact.SUSE information
Overall state of this security issue: Does not affect SUSE products
This issue is currently rated as having important severity.
| CVSS detail | National Vulnerability Database |
|---|---|
| Base Score | 7.5 |
| Vector | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P |
| Access Vector | Network |
| Access Complexity | Low |
| Authentication | None |
| Confidentiality Impact | Partial |
| Integrity Impact | Partial |
| Availability Impact | Partial |
| CVSS detail | National Vulnerability Database |
|---|---|
| Base Score | 9.8 |
| Vector | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
| Attack Vector | Network |
| Attack Complexity | Low |
| Privileges Required | None |
| User Interaction | None |
| Scope | Unchanged |
| Confidentiality Impact | High |
| Integrity Impact | High |
| Availability Impact | High |
| CVSSv3 Version | 3 |
Note from the SUSE Security Team
While Apple claims this a vulnerability in file, Apple did not publish sufficient information to evaluate the issue. It likely is a duplicate of an existing other file CVE. No SUSE Bugzilla entries cross referenced. No SUSE Security Announcements cross referenced.SUSE Timeline for this CVE
CVE page created: Mon Oct 23 09:15:35 2017CVE page last modified: Mon Oct 6 18:46:11 2025