National Cyber Awareness System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2001-0806
Original release date:12/06/2001
Last revised:09/05/2008
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
Apple MacOS X 10.0 and 10.1 allow a local user to read and write to a user's desktop folder via insecure default permissions for the Desktop when it is created in some languages.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0 incomplete approximation):
Impact Subscore:
4.9
Exploitability Subscore:
3.9
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Locally exploitable
Access Complexity: Low
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows unauthorized disclosure of information; Allows unauthorized modification
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External Source: BID
Name: 2930
Type: Advisory; Patch Information
External Source: BUGTRAQ
Name: 20010626 MacOSX 10.0.X Permissions uncorrectly set
Type: Advisory; Patch Information
External Source: BUGTRAQ
Name: 20010704 Re: MacOSX 10.0.X Permissions uncorrectly set - I got it
Type: Advisory
External Source: XF
Name: macos-desktop-insecure-permissions(6750)
External Source: OSVDB
Name: 1882
External Source: BUGTRAQ
Name: 20011007 OS X 10.1 and localized desktop folder still vulnerable