CVE-2005-0125

Severity: high (CVSS 7.2 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2005-05-02 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

The "at" commands on Mac OS X 10.3.7 and earlier do not properly drop privileges, which allows local users to (1) delete arbitrary files via atrm, (2) execute arbitrary programs via the -f argument to batch, or (3) read arbitrary files via the -f argument to batch, which generates a job file that is readable by the local user.

Affected products

macOS: 10.3.4, 10.3.7
Apple Mac Os X Server: 10.3.7

References

http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2005/Jan/msg00001.html
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=110685027017411&w=2
http://www.digitalmunition.com/DMA%5B2005-0127a%5D.txt
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/678150
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/18981
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2005/Jan/msg00001.html
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=110685027017411&w=2
http://www.digitalmunition.com/DMA%5B2005-0127a%5D.txt
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/678150
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/18981

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