CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2003-0171

Published: May 05, 2003 | Modified: Sep 10, 2008
CVSS 3.x
N/A
Source:
NVD
CVSS 2.x
7.2 HIGH
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

DirectoryServices in MacOS X trusts the PATH environment variable to locate and execute the touch command, which allows local users to execute arbitrary commands by modifying the PATH to point to a directory containing a malicious touch program.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Mac_os_x Apple 10.0 (including) 10.0 (including)
Mac_os_x Apple 10.0.1 (including) 10.0.1 (including)
Mac_os_x Apple 10.0.2 (including) 10.0.2 (including)
Mac_os_x Apple 10.0.3 (including) 10.0.3 (including)
Mac_os_x Apple 10.0.4 (including) 10.0.4 (including)
Mac_os_x Apple 10.1 (including) 10.1 (including)
Mac_os_x Apple 10.1.1 (including) 10.1.1 (including)
Mac_os_x Apple 10.1.2 (including) 10.1.2 (including)
Mac_os_x Apple 10.1.3 (including) 10.1.3 (including)
Mac_os_x Apple 10.1.4 (including) 10.1.4 (including)
Mac_os_x Apple 10.1.5 (including) 10.1.5 (including)
Mac_os_x Apple 10.2 (including) 10.2 (including)
Mac_os_x Apple 10.2.1 (including) 10.2.1 (including)
Mac_os_x Apple 10.2.2 (including) 10.2.2 (including)
Mac_os_x Apple 10.2.3 (including) 10.2.3 (including)
Mac_os_x Apple 10.2.4 (including) 10.2.4 (including)
Mac_os_x_server Apple 10.0 (including) 10.0 (including)
Mac_os_x_server Apple 10.2 (including) 10.2 (including)
Mac_os_x_server Apple 10.2.1 (including) 10.2.1 (including)
Mac_os_x_server Apple 10.2.2 (including) 10.2.2 (including)
Mac_os_x_server Apple 10.2.3 (including) 10.2.3 (including)
Mac_os_x_server Apple 10.2.4 (including) 10.2.4 (including)

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