CVE-2007-0023

Severity

69%

Complexity

34%

Confidentiality

165%

The CFUserNotificationSendRequest function in UserNotificationCenter.app in Apple Mac OS X 10.4.8, when used in combination with diskutil, allows local users to gain privileges via a malicious InputManager in Library/InputManagers in a user's home directory, which is executed when Cocoa applications attempt to notify the user.

The CFUserNotificationSendRequest function in UserNotificationCenter.app in Apple Mac OS X 10.4.8, when used in combination with diskutil, allows local users to gain privileges via a malicious InputManager in Library/InputManagers in a user's home directory, which is executed when Cocoa applications attempt to notify the user.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 6.9. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: medium. CVSS Vector: (AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C).

Overview

First reported 18 years ago

2007-01-24 01:28:00

Last updated 7 years ago

2017-07-29 01:29:00

Affected Software

Apple Mac OS X 10.4.8

10.4.8

References

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=305102

APPLE-SA-2007-02-15

http://projects.info-pull.com/moab/MOAB-22-01-2007.html

Exploit, Vendor Advisory

23846

24198

1017542

VU#315856

US Government Resource

32695

22188

TA07-047A

US Government Resource

ADV-2007-0074

macos-inputmanager-privilege-escalation(31676)

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