CVEvulnerability

CVE-2003-0171

7.2 HIGH Published 2003-05-05 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2003-05-05
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
7.2 HIGH — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Description

DirectoryServices in MacOS X trusts the PATH environment variable to locate and execute the touch command, which allows local users to execute arbitrary commands by modifying the PATH to point to a directory containing a malicious touch program.

Affected configurations

• apple mac os x 10.0 • apple mac os x 10.0.1 • apple mac os x 10.0.2 • apple mac os x 10.0.3 • apple mac os x 10.0.4 • apple mac os x 10.1 • apple mac os x 10.1.1 • apple mac os x 10.1.2 • apple mac os x 10.1.3 • apple mac os x 10.1.4 • apple mac os x 10.1.5 • apple mac os x 10.2 • apple mac os x 10.2.1 • apple mac os x 10.2.2 • apple mac os x 10.2.3 • apple mac os x 10.2.4 • apple mac os x server 10.0 • apple mac os x server 10.2 • apple mac os x server 10.2.1 • apple mac os x server 10.2.2 • apple mac os x server 10.2.3 • apple mac os x server 10.2.4

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