Vulnerability in Apple Mac OS X
CVE-2007-0752
The PPP daemon (pppd) in Apple Mac OS X 10.4.8 checks ownership of the stdin file descriptor to determine if the invoker has sufficient privileges, which allows local users to load arbitrary plugins and gain root privileges by bypassing this check.
EPSS: 0.007 (50.3th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.
Affected products
- Apple Mac_os_x — versions 10.4.8
- Apple Mac_os_x_server — versions 10.4.8
- N/a — versions n/a
References
- cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_CONFIRM)
- cve@mitre.org (vdb-entry, x_refsource_SECTRACK)
- cve@mitre.org (vdb-entry, x_refsource_VUPEN)
- cve@mitre.org (vendor-advisory, x_refsource_APPLE)
- cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_SECUNIA, third-party-advisory)
- cve@mitre.org (vdb-entry, x_refsource_XF)
- cve@mitre.org (vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID)
- cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_OSVDB, vdb-entry)
- cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_IDEFENSE, Vendor Advisory, third-party-advisory)