CVE-2009-0141 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

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.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Local

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required Low

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact High

Availability Impact None

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

Access Vector Local

Access Complexity Low

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact Partial

Availability Impact None

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00047.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

Vendors	Products
Apple	Mac Os X Mac Os X Server

Configuration 1 [-]

OR	cpe:2.3:o:apple:mac_os_x:10.4.11:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:o:apple:mac_os_x:10.5.6:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:o:apple:mac_os_x_server:10.4.11:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:o:apple:mac_os_x_server:10.5.6:::::::*

No data.

No data.

Advisories

No advisories yet.

Fixes

Solution

No solution given by the vendor.

Workaround

No workaround given by the vendor.

References

Link	Providers
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2009/Feb/msg00000.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/33937
http://securitytracker.com/alerts/2009/Feb/1021729.html
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3438
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/33798
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/0422
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/48727

History

No history.

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2009-02-13T00:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-07T04:24:18.128Z

Reserved: 2009-01-16T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2009-0141

Vulnrichment

No data.

NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2009-02-13T00:30:05.077

Modified: 2025-04-09T00:30:58.490

Link: CVE-2009-0141

Redhat

No data.

OpenCVE Enrichment

No data.

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