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CVE-2005-4217

Perl in Apple Mac OS X Server 10.3.9 does not properly drop privileges when using the "$<" variable to set uid, which allows attackers to gain privileges.

Published

2005-12-14T11:03:00.000

Last Modified

2025-04-03T01:03:51.193

Status

Deferred

Source

[email protected]

Severity

CVSSv2: 7.5 (HIGH)

CVSSv2 Vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Access Vector: NETWORK
Access Complexity: LOW
Authentication: NONE
Confidentiality Impact: PARTIAL
Integrity Impact: PARTIAL
Availability Impact: PARTIAL

Exploitability Score

10.0

Impact Score

6.4

Weaknesses

Type: Primary
CWE-264

Affected Vendors & Products

Type	Vendor	Product	Version/Range	Vulnerable?
Operating System	apple	mac_os_x_server	10.3.9	Yes

References

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=303382 ([email protected])
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2006/Mar/msg00000.html ([email protected])
http://secunia.com/advisories/17922 Vendor Advisory ([email protected])
http://secunia.com/advisories/19064 Vendor Advisory ([email protected])
http://www.osvdb.org/21800 ([email protected])
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15833 ([email protected])
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/16907 ([email protected])
http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA06-062A.html US Government Resource ([email protected])
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/2869 Vendor Advisory ([email protected])
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/0791 Vendor Advisory ([email protected])
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/23561 ([email protected])
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=303382 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2006/Mar/msg00000.html (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://secunia.com/advisories/17922 Vendor Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://secunia.com/advisories/19064 Vendor Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.osvdb.org/21800 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15833 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/16907 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA06-062A.html US Government Resource (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/2869 Vendor Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/0791 Vendor Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/23561 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)