Detections
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CVE-2009-0141

medium

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.

References

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

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

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

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

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2009-02-13

Updated: 2025-04-09

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 2.1

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Severity: Low

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00047