CVE-2009-0141
MEDIUM · CVSS 5.5EPSS 0.3%EU EUVD
XTerm in Apple Mac OS X 10.4.11 and 10.5.6, when used with luit, creates tty devices with insecure world-writable permissions, which allows local users to write to the Xterm of another user.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 5.5 (v3.1)
- Severity
- MEDIUM
- CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-732
- EPSS score
- 0.3% (23th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2009-0150)
- Published
- February 13, 2009
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2009-0150 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- apple / mac os x
- apple / mac os x
- apple / mac os x server
- apple / mac os x server
References
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2009/Feb/msg00000.html(Mailing List, Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/33937(Broken Link)
- http://securitytracker.com/alerts/2009/Feb/1021729.html(Broken Link, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry)
- http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3438(Third Party Advisory)
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/33798(Broken Link, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry)
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/0422(Permissions Required)
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/48727(Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry)
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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