CVEvulnerability

CVE-2009-2840

4.9 MEDIUM Published 2009-11-10 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2009-11-10
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
4.9 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:C/A:N

Description

Spotlight in Apple Mac OS X 10.5.8 does not properly handle temporary files, which allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files in the context of a different user's privileges via unspecified vectors.

Affected configurations

• apple mac os x 10.5.8 • apple mac os x server 10.5.8

References