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CVE-2009-2190
launchd in Apple Mac OS X 10.5 before 10.5.8 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (individual service outage) by making…
High7.8EPSS 4.3%
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- mitre
Description
launchd in Apple Mac OS X 10.5 before 10.5.8 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (individual service outage) by making many connections to an inetd-based launchd service.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | High7.8 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 4.3% · top 8.9% of all CVEs (4 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.8.
Weakness
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (9)
- http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3757 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 56841 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDBx_transferred
- 36096 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- APPLE-SA-2009-08-05-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_APPLEx_transferred
- macosx-launchd-dos(52425) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- 1022672 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- 35954 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- ADV-2009-2172 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- TA09-218A (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERTx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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