CVE-2008-0055

Apple Mac OS X 10.4.11 - Denial of Service and Privilege Escalation via World-Writable Directory Creation

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

Foundation in Apple Mac OS X 10.4.11 creates world-writable directories while NSFileManager copies files recursively and only modifies the permissions afterward, which allows local users to modify copied files to cause a denial of service and possibly gain privileges.

References (9)

Core 9
Core References
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_bid
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/28304
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_bid
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/28343
US Government Resource third-party-advisory x_refsource_cert
http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA08-079A.html
Third Party Advisory vdb-entry x_refsource_vupen
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0924/references
Third Party Advisory third-party-advisory x_refsource_secunia
http://secunia.com/advisories/29420
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_xf
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/41299
Vendor Advisory x_refsource_confirm
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=307562
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_sectrack
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1019649

Scores

EPSS 0.0027
EPSS Percentile 18.5%

Details

CWE
CWE-362
Status published
Products (2)
apple/mac_os_x 10.4.11
apple/mac_os_x_server 10.4.11
Published Mar 18, 2008
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026