CVE-2009-0141

5.5 MEDIUM

Published: February 13, 2009 Modified: April 23, 2026

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.

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CVSS v3.x Details

0.0 Low Medium High Critical 10.0

Vector String

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

Patch Vendor Advisory Exploit Third Party Advisory

http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2009/Feb/msg00000.html

Source: cve@mitre.org

Mailing List Vendor Advisory

http://secunia.com/advisories/33937

Source: cve@mitre.org

Broken Link

http://securitytracker.com/alerts/2009/Feb/1021729.html

Source: cve@mitre.org

Broken Link Third Party Advisory VDB Entry

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3438

Source: cve@mitre.org

Third Party Advisory

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/33798

Source: cve@mitre.org

Broken Link Third Party Advisory VDB Entry

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/0422

Source: cve@mitre.org

Permissions Required

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/48727

Source: cve@mitre.org

Third Party Advisory VDB Entry

http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2009/Feb/msg00000.html