CVE-2009-2840

2009-11-1019:00:00

mitre

www.cve.org

AI Score

6.8

Confidence

High

EPSS

Percentile

5.1%

JSON

Spotlight in Apple Mac OS X 10.5.8 does not properly handle temporary files, which allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files in the context of a different user’s privileges via unspecified vectors.

References

lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2009/Nov/msg00000.html

support.apple.com/kb/HT3937

www.securityfocus.com/bid/36956

www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/3184