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CVE-2009-0141

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.

  • Published: Feb 13, 2009
  • Updated: Nov 9, 2025
  • CVE: CVE-2009-0141
  • Severity: Medium
  • Exploit:

CVSS v3:

  • Severity: Medium
  • Score: 5.5
  • AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

CVSS v2:

  • Severity: Low
  • Score: 2.1
  • AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

CWEs:

Software From Fixed in
apple / mac_os_x 10.5.6 10.5.6.x
apple / mac_os_x_server 10.4.11 10.4.11.x
apple / mac_os_x_server 10.5.6 10.5.6.x
apple / mac_os_x 10.4.11 10.4.11.x