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CVE-2001-0806
Apple MacOS X 10.0 and 10.1 allow a local user to read and write to a user's desktop folder via insecure default permissions for the…
Low3.6EPSS 0.34%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- mitre
Description
Apple MacOS X 10.0 and 10.1 allow a local user to read and write to a user's desktop folder via insecure default permissions for the Desktop when it is created in some languages.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 4 months later
· 4 months later
Published
- 22 years later
· 22 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Low3.6 | AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.34% · top 72% of all CVEs (8 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Low 3.6.
Weakness
- n/a
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (6)
- 1882 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDBx_transferred
- 20010626 MacOSX 10.0.X Permissions uncorrectly set (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- macos-desktop-insecure-permissions(6750) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- 20010704 Re: MacOSX 10.0.X Permissions uncorrectly set - I got it (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- 20011007 OS X 10.1 and localized desktop folder still vulnerable (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- 2930 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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