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Cocktail Exposure of Administrator Password Advisory Available in Danish 

Secunia Advisory: SA15201  
Release Date: 2005-05-02
Last Update: 2005-05-03

Critical:
Less critical
Impact: Exposure of sensitive information
Where: Local system
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

Software:Cocktail 3.x

CVE reference:CVE-2005-1387 (Secunia mirror)

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Description:
sonderling has reported a security issue in Cocktail, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to disclose sensitive information.

The problem is that the administrator password is insecurely passed to the sudo process via the command line and may be exposed to other users.

The security issue has been reported in version 3.5.4. Prior versions may also be affected.

Solution:
Update to version 3.6.
http://www.macosxcocktail.com/download.html

Provided and/or discovered by:
sonderling

Changelog:
2005-05-03: Added CVE reference.



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