Title: Apple MacOS X Terminal Unspecified Unauthorized Access Vulnerability
Severity: MODERATE
Description:
Apple's MacOS X operating system includes the Terminal application, which is a GUI-based Unix command shell.
Apple has reported that a vulnerability has recently been fixed in MacOS X 10.3, specifically in the Terminal application. Exploitation of the issue is said to grant an attacker unauthorized access, however further technical details have not yet been made available. Although unconfirmed it has been conjectured that this condition is likely exploitable by a local user to gain elevated privileges.
The local or remote context of this vulnerability is not currently known, however due to the nature of the affected application, for the time being the condition will be marked as local.
This vulnerability is said to only affected MacOS X version 10.3, all previous versions are unaffected.
This BID will be updated as further information is made available.
Affected Products:
- Apple Mac OS X 10.3.0
- Apple Mac OS X Server 10.3.0
References:
- Apple: Mac OS X Home Page
- Apple: Security Update 2003-11-04
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