CVE-2001-1447

Severity

72%

Complexity

39%

Confidentiality

165%

NetInfo Manager for Mac OS X 10.0 through 10.1 allows local users to gain root privileges by opening applications using the (1) "recent items" and (2) "services" menus, which causes the applications to run with root privileges.

NetInfo Manager for Mac OS X 10.0 through 10.1 allows local users to gain root privileges by opening applications using the (1) "recent items" and (2) "services" menus, which causes the applications to run with root privileges.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 7.2. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C).

Overview

Type

Apple Mac OS X

First reported 23 years ago

2001-10-17 04:00:00

Last updated 7 years ago

2017-07-11 01:29:00

Affected Software

Apple Mac OS X 10.0

10.0

Apple Mac OS X 10.0.1

10.0.1

Apple Mac OS X 10.0.2

10.0.2

Apple Mac OS X 10.0.3

10.0.3

Apple Mac OS X 10.0.4

10.0.4

Apple Mac OS X 10.1

10.1

References

20011017 Mac OS X setuid root security hole

Exploit

20011017 Re: Mac OS X setuid root security hole

Vendor Advisory

M-007

Exploit

VU#945747

Exploit, Patch, US Government Resource

3439

Exploit

macos-netinfo-root-privileges(7303)

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