National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2005-0125
Original release date:05/02/2005
Last revised:09/10/2008
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
The "at" commands on Mac OS X 10.3.7 and earlier do not properly drop privileges, which allows local users to (1) delete arbitrary files via atrm, (2) execute arbitrary programs via the -f argument to batch, or (3) read arbitrary files via the -f argument to batch, which generates a job file that is readable by the local user.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
10.0
Exploitability Subscore:
3.9
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Locally exploitable
Access Complexity: Low
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Provides administrator access, Allows complete confidentiality, integrity, and availability violation; Allows unauthorized disclosure of information; Allows disruption of service
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US-CERT Vulnerability Note: VU#678150
Name: VU#678150
Type: Advisory; Patch Information
External Source: APPLE
Name: APPLE-SA-2005-01-25
Type: Advisory; Patch Information
External Source: XF
Name: macos-at-gain-privileges(18981)
Type: Advisory
External Source: MISC
Name: http://www.digitalmunition.com/DMA[2005-0127a].txt
External Source: BUGTRAQ
Name: 20050127 DMA[2005-0127a] - 'Apple OSX batch family poor use of setuid'
Type: Advisory
