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CVE-2009-0141

CVE information

Published

15 years ago

Last Modified

2 months ago

CVSSv2.0 Severity

Low

CVSSv3.1 Severity

Medium

Impact Analysis

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..

CVSSv2.0 Score

Severity
Low
Base Score
2.1/10
Exploit Score
3.9/10
Access Vector
Local
Access Complexity
Low
Authentication Required
None
Impact Score
2.9/10
Confidentiality Impact
None
Availability Impact
None
Integrity Impact
Partial

CVSSv3.1 Score

Severity
Medium
Base Score
5.5/10
Exploit Score
1.8/10
Access Vector
Local
Access Complexity
Low
Privileges Required
Low
Impact Score
3.6/10
Confidentiality Impact
None
Availability Impact
None
Integrity Impact
High
Scope
Unchanged
User Interaction
None

Products Affected

CPE Affected Vulnerable Excluding Edit
cpe:2.3:o:apple:mac_os_x:10.5.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:o:apple:mac_os_x_server:10.4.11:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:o:apple:mac_os_x_server:10.5.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:o:apple:mac_os_x:10.4.11:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -