CVE-2007-0345

Severity

68%

Complexity

31%

Confidentiality

165%

The (1) Activity Monitor.app/Contents/Resources/pmTool, (2) Keychain Access.app/Contents/Resources/kcproxy, and (3) ODBC Administrator.app/Contents/Resources/iodbcadmintool programs in /Applications/Utilities/ in Mac OS X 10.4.8 have weak permissions (writable by admin group), which allows local admin users to gain root privileges by modifying a program and then performing permissions repair via diskutil.

The (1) Activity Monitor.app/Contents/Resources/pmTool, (2) Keychain Access.app/Contents/Resources/kcproxy, and (3) ODBC Administrator.app/Contents/Resources/iodbcadmintool programs in /Applications/Utilities/ in Mac OS X 10.4.8 have weak permissions (writable by admin group), which allows local admin users to gain root privileges by modifying a program and then performing permissions repair via diskutil.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 6.8. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C).

Overview

First reported 18 years ago

2007-01-18 02:28:00

Last updated 7 years ago

2017-10-19 01:29:00

Affected Software

Apple Mac OS X 10.4.8

10.4.8

References

http://projects.info-pull.com/moab/MOAB-15-01-2007.html

Exploit

32700

32701

32702

macosx-applications-privilege-escalation(31530)

3136

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