6.2 Medium
CVSS2
Access Vector
LOCAL
Access Complexity
HIGH
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
COMPLETE
Integrity Impact
COMPLETE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
0.0004 Low
EPSS
Percentile
0.4%
CrashReporter contains a privilege escalation vulnerability that may allow authenticated users to run commands as root.
CrashReporter is a debugging facility in Apple OS X that logs information program crashes.
CrashReporter contains a privilege escalation vulnerability. This vulnerability occurs because a user which has admin privileges can cause CrashReporter’s log files to be written to arbitrary files as root. This vulnerability may result in the execution of commands with root privileges.
Note that a attacker would need to convince an authenticated user who is a member of the admin group to execute commands to exploit this vulnerability remotely.
An authenticated attacker may be able to issue arbitrary commands with root privileges or overwrite arbitrary files.
Upgrade
Apple has issued an upgrade to address this issue. See Apple Security Update 2007-003 for more details.
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Updated: March 13, 2007
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The vendor has not provided us with any further information regarding this vulnerability.
See <http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=305214> for more details.
If you have feedback, comments, or additional information about this vulnerability, please send us [email](<mailto:[email protected]?Subject=VU%23363112 Feedback>).
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This issue was made public on the Month of Apple Bugs website.
This document was written by Ryan Giobbi.
CVE IDs: | CVE-2007-0467 |
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Severity Metric: | 0.35 Date Public: |