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CVE-2009-2840
published 2009-11-10

CVE-2009-2840: Spotlight in Apple Mac OS X 10.5.8 does not properly handle temporary files, which allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files in the context of a…

PriorityP418medium4.9CVSS 2.0
AVLACLAuNCNICAN
EPSS
0.34%
27.0th percentile
Spotlight in Apple Mac OS X 10.5.8 does not properly handle temporary files, which allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files in the context of a different user's privileges via unspecified vectors.

Affected

2 ranges
VendorProductVersion rangeFixed in
applemac_os_x
applemac_os_x_server
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