Medium 5.5Published Feb 12, 2009

CVE-2009-0141XTerm in Apple Mac OS X 10.4.11 and 10.5.6, when used with luit, creates tty devices with insecure world-writable permissions, which allows local users to write to the Xterm of another user.

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XTerm in Apple Mac OS X 10.4.11 and 10.5.6, when used with luit, creates tty devices with insecure world-writable permissions, which allows local users to write to the Xterm of another user.

CVSS: 5.5 MEDIUM (v3.1, NVD)CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
Weakness (CWE): CWE-732
Known exploited: Not in CISA's KEV catalog
EPSS (exploitation in the next 30 days): Not loaded for this CVE
Assigned by: Not given
NVD analysis: Modified
Record last updated: Jun 16, 2026
First seen by InfoSec Signals: Nov 1, 2026

Affected products

Affected products

apple mac_os_x apple:mac_os_x	10.4.11; 10.5.6	NVD
apple mac_os_x_server apple:mac_os_x_server	10.4.11; 10.5.6	NVD

References

References

http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2009/Feb/msg00000.html	mailing-list, vendor-advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/33937	broken-link
http://securitytracker.com/alerts/2009/Feb/1021729.html	broken-link, third-party-advisory, vdb-entry
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3438	third-party-advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/33798	broken-link, third-party-advisory, vdb-entry
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/0422	permissions-required
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/48727	third-party-advisory, vdb-entry

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