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Mac OS X Finder Insecure File Creation Vulnerability
Secunia Advisory: SA14188
Release Date: 2005-02-08
Last Update: 2005-05-04
Popularity: 15,025 views

Critical:
Less critical
Impact: Privilege escalation
Where: Local system
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

OS:Apple Macintosh OS X

Secunia CVSS-2 Score: Available in Secunia business solutions

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Description:
vade79 has discovered a vulnerability in Finder, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to perform certain actions on a vulnerable system with escalated privileges.

The vulnerability is caused due to ".DS_Store" files being created insecurely. This can be exploited via a malicious hard link to overwrite arbitrary files with the privileges of the user running Finder.

The vulnerability has been confirmed in Finder version 10.3.2 on Mac OS X version 10.3.7. Other versions may also be affected.

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