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CVE-2009-2840

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.

Published: Nov 10, 2009
Updated: Nov 9, 2025
CVE: CVE-2009-2840
Severity: Low
Exploit:

CVSS v2:

Severity: Low
Score: 4.9
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:C/A:N

No CWE or OWASP classifications available.

Affected Software
References

Software	From	Fixed in
apple / mac_os_x	10.5.8	10.5.8.x
apple / mac_os_x_server	10.5.8	10.5.8.x

http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2009/Nov/msg00000.html
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3937
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/36956
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/3184

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