CVE-2007-0345

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 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: yes
Published: 2007-01-18 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

The (1) Activity Monitor.app/Contents/Resources/pmTool, (2) Keychain Access.app/Contents/Resources/kcproxy, and (3) ODBC Administrator.app/Contents/Resources/iodbcadmintool programs in /Applications/Utilities/ in Mac OS X 10.4.8 have weak permissions (writable by admin group), which allows local admin users to gain root privileges by modifying a program and then performing permissions repair via diskutil.

Affected products

macOS: 10.4.8

References

http://projects.info-pull.com/moab/MOAB-15-01-2007.html
http://www.osvdb.org/32700
http://www.osvdb.org/32701
http://www.osvdb.org/32702
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/31530
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/3136
http://projects.info-pull.com/moab/MOAB-15-01-2007.html
http://www.osvdb.org/32700
http://www.osvdb.org/32701
http://www.osvdb.org/32702
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/31530
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/3136

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