CVEvulnerability
CVE-2005-4217
7.5 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2005-12-14
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 7.5 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-264
Description
Perl in Apple Mac OS X Server 10.3.9 does not properly drop privileges when using the "$<" variable to set uid, which allows attackers to gain privileges.
Affected configurations
• apple mac os x server 10.3.9
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=303382 docs.info.apple.com
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2006/Mar/msg00000.html lists.apple.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/17922 Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/19064 Vendor Advisory
- http://www.osvdb.org/21800 www.osvdb.org
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15833 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/16907 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA06-062A.html US Government Resource
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/2869 Vendor Advisory
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/0791 Vendor Advisory
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/23561 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=303382 docs.info.apple.com
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2006/Mar/msg00000.html lists.apple.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/17922 Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/19064 Vendor Advisory
- http://www.osvdb.org/21800 www.osvdb.org
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15833 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/16907 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA06-062A.html US Government Resource
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/2869 Vendor Advisory
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/0791 Vendor Advisory
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/23561 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com