CVE-2007-4703

Severity

99%

Complexity

99%

Confidentiality

165%

The Application Firewall in Apple Mac OS X 10.5 does not prevent a root process from accepting incoming connections, even when "Block incoming connections" has been set for its associated executable, which might allow remote attackers or local root processes to bypass intended access restrictions.

The Application Firewall in Apple Mac OS X 10.5 does not prevent a root process from accepting incoming connections, even when "Block incoming connections" has been set for its associated executable, which might allow remote attackers or local root processes to bypass intended access restrictions.

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

Type

Apple Mac OS X

First reported 17 years ago

2007-11-15 20:46:00

Last updated 7 years ago

2017-07-29 01:33:00

Affected Software

Apple Mac OS X 10.5

10.5

Apple Mac OS X Server 10.5

10.5

References

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=307004

Patch

APPLE-SA-2007-11-15

Patch

27695

Vendor Advisory

1018958

26460

ADV-2007-3897

Vendor Advisory

macosx-appfw-rootuid-bypass(38479)

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