Medium severity · published Feb 13, 2009
CVE-2009-0141
XTerm in Apple Mac OS X 10.4.11 and 10.5.6, when used with luit, creates tty devices with insecure world-writable permissions, which allows local users to write to the Xterm of…
5.5
CVSS
0.3%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
XTerm in Apple Mac OS X 10.4.11 and 10.5.6, when used with luit, creates tty devices with insecure world-writable permissions, which allows local users to write to the Xterm of another user.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
Attack vector
Local
Complexity
Low
Privileges
Low
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
High
Availability
None
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.3% · higher than 23% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
MO
Mac OS X · Apple
10.4.11; 10.5.6 · source: NVD
MO
Mac OS X Server · Apple
10.4.11; 10.5.6 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2009-0141
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2009-0141
Mailing List
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2009/Feb/msg00000.html
Broken Link
http://secunia.com/advisories/33937
Broken Link
http://securitytracker.com/alerts/2009/Feb/1021729.html
Third Party Advisory
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3438
Broken Link
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/33798
Permissions Required
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/0422
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