Vulnerability in Apple Mac OS X
CVE-2006-4404
The Installer application in Apple Mac OS X 10.4.8 and earlier, when used by a user with Admin credentials, does not authenticate the user before installing certain software requiring system privileges.
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 10.0 (High). Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.022 (81.8th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 82nd percentile — 81.8% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.022 · newest: 0.022 · change: 0.000
Affected products
References
- www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4750 (vdb-entry)
- docs.info.apple.com/article.html
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/21335 (vdb-entry)
- securitytracker.com/id (vdb-entry)
- www.osvdb.org/30733 (vdb-entry)
- secunia.com/advisories/23155 (Vendor Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2006/Nov/msg00001.html (vendor-advisory)
- www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA06-333A.html (US Government Resource, third-party-advisory)