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CVE-2005-2714
passwd in Directory Services in Mac OS X 10.3.x before 10.3.9 and 10.4.x before 10.4.5 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via…
- 6.8MediumCVSS base score
- 0.55%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 54% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
passwd in Directory Services in Mac OS X 10.3.x before 10.3.9 and 10.4.x before 10.4.5 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the .pwtmp.[PID] temporary file.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 6 months later
· 6 months later
Published
- 18 years later
· 18 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 | Medium6.8 | AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.55% · top 54% of all CVEs (10 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.8.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
11
- 20060302 Apple Mac OS X passwd Arbitrary Binary File Creation/Modification (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_IDEFENSEx_transferred
- 20060302 [OSX]: /usr/bin/passwd local root exploit. (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- 19064 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 23647 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDBx_transferred
- 16907 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- ADV-2006-0791 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- 16910 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- APPLE-SA-2006-03-01 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_APPLEx_transferred
- TA06-062A (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERTx_transferred
- http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=303382 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- macosx-passwd-symlink(25274) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_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)
- EUVD EUVD-2005-2715 (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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