CVEvulnerability

CVE-2005-2713

6.8 MEDIUM Published 2005-12-31 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2005-12-31
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
6.8 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C

Description

passwd in Directory Services in Mac OS X 10.3.x before 10.3.9 and 10.4.x before 10.4.5 allows local users to create arbitrary world-writable files as root by specifying an alternate file in the password database option.

Affected configurations

• apple mac os x 10.3 • apple mac os x 10.3.1 • apple mac os x 10.3.2 • apple mac os x 10.3.3 • apple mac os x 10.3.4 • apple mac os x 10.3.5 • apple mac os x 10.3.6 • apple mac os x 10.3.7 • apple mac os x 10.3.8 • apple mac os x 10.3.9 • apple mac os x 10.4 • apple mac os x 10.4.1 • apple mac os x 10.4.2 • apple mac os x 10.4.3 • apple mac os x 10.4.4 • apple mac os x 10.4.5 • apple mac os x server 10.3 • apple mac os x server 10.3.1 • apple mac os x server 10.3.2 • apple mac os x server 10.3.3 • apple mac os x server 10.3.4 • apple mac os x server 10.3.5 • apple mac os x server 10.3.6 • apple mac os x server 10.3.7 • apple mac os x server 10.3.8 • apple mac os x server 10.3.9 • apple mac os x server 10.4 • apple mac os x server 10.4.1 • apple mac os x server 10.4.2 • apple mac os x server 10.4.3 • apple mac os x server 10.4.4 • apple mac os x server 10.4.5

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