CVE-2006-4404

Severity

99%

Complexity

99%

Confidentiality

165%

The Installer application in Apple Mac OS X 10.4.8 and earlier, when used by a user with Admin credentials, does not authenticate the user before installing certain software requiring system privileges.

The Installer application in Apple Mac OS X 10.4.8 and earlier, when used by a user with Admin credentials, does not authenticate the user before installing certain software requiring system privileges.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 9.9. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C).

Overview

First reported 18 years ago

2006-11-30 16:28:00

Last updated 13 years ago

2011-03-08 02:40:00

Affected Software

Apple Mac OS X

References

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=304829

APPLE-SA-2006-11-28

23155

Vendor Advisory

1017304

30733

21335

TA06-333A

US Government Resource

ADV-2006-4750

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