CVEvulnerability

CVE-2009-0141

5.5 MEDIUM Published 2009-02-13 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2009-02-13
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
2.1 LOW — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
Weaknesses
CWE-732

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.

Affected configurations

• apple mac os x 10.4.11 • apple mac os x 10.5.6 • apple mac os x server 10.4.11 • apple mac os x server 10.5.6

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-732 Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource weakness

Referenced by CWE · observed example (1)

  • CWE-732 Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource weakness

References