CVEvulnerability
CVE-2006-4404
10.0 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2006-11-30
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 10.0 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Description
The Installer application in Apple Mac OS X 10.4.8 and earlier, when used by a user with Admin credentials, does not authenticate the user before installing certain software requiring system privileges.
Affected configurations
• apple mac os x (<= 10.4.8)
References
- http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=304829 docs.info.apple.com
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2006/Nov/msg00001.html lists.apple.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/23155 Vendor Advisory
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1017304 securitytracker.com
- http://www.osvdb.org/30733 www.osvdb.org
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/21335 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA06-333A.html US Government Resource
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4750 www.vupen.com
- http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=304829 docs.info.apple.com
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2006/Nov/msg00001.html lists.apple.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/23155 Vendor Advisory
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1017304 securitytracker.com
- http://www.osvdb.org/30733 www.osvdb.org
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/21335 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA06-333A.html US Government Resource
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4750 www.vupen.com