CVE-2009-0141

MEDIUM

XTerm <10.5.6 - Local Info Disclosure

Title source: llm

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.

References (7)

[Mailing List, Vendor Advisory] http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2009/Feb/msg00000.html

[Broken Link] http://secunia.com/advisories/33937

[Broken Link, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry] http://securitytracker.com/alerts/2009/Feb/1021729.html

[Third Party Advisory] http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3438

[Broken Link, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry] http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/33798

[Permissions Required] http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/0422

[Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry] https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/48727

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5

EPSS 0.0005

EPSS Percentile 14.3%

Attack Vector LOCAL

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Classification

CWE

CWE-732

Status draft

Affected Products (4)

apple/mac_os_x

apple/mac_os_x_server

Timeline

Published Feb 13, 2009

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026