Published: 23/06/2008 Updated: 08/08/2017

CVSS v2 Base Score: 7.2 | Impact Score: 10 | Exploitability Score: 3.9

VMScore: 725

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

Open Scripting Architecture in Apple Mac OS X 10.4.11 and 10.5.4, and some other 10.4 and 10.5 versions, does not properly restrict the loading of scripting addition plugins, which allows local users to gain privileges via scripting addition commands to a privileged application, as originally demonstrated by an osascript tell command to ARDAgent.

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source: wwwsecurityfocuscom/bid/29831/info Mac OS X is prone to a local privilege-escalation vulnerability affecting ARDAgent (Apple Remote Desktop) Successful exploits allow local attackers to execute arbitrary code with superuser privileges, completely compromising the affected computer This issue is confirmed to affect Mac OS X 10 ...

CWE-264 http://it.slashdot.org/it/08/06/18/1919224.shtml http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/29831 http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce//2008/Jul/msg00003.html http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1020345 http://secunia.com/advisories/30776 http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce//2008//Sep/msg00006.html http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1905/references https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/43294 https://nvd.nist.gov https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/31940/

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