CVE-2006-4887

Severity

72%

Complexity

39%

Confidentiality

165%

Apple Remote Desktop (ARD) for Mac OS X 10.2.8 and later does not drop privileges on the remote machine while installing certain applications, which allows local users to bypass authentication and gain privileges by selecting the icon during installation. NOTE: it could be argued that the issue is not in Remote Desktop itself, but in applications that are installed while using it.

Apple Remote Desktop (ARD) for Mac OS X 10.2.8 and later does not drop privileges on the remote machine while installing certain applications, which allows local users to bypass authentication and gain privileges by selecting the icon during installation. NOTE: it could be argued that the issue is not in Remote Desktop itself, but in applications that are installed while using it.

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

First reported 18 years ago

2006-09-19 21:07:00

Last updated 6 years ago

2018-10-30 16:26:00

Affected Software

Apple Remote Desktop 2.0.0

2.0.0

Apple Remote Desktop 2.1.0

2.1.0

Apple Remote Desktop 3.0.0

3.0.0

Apple Mac OS X

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