CVE-2003-0171 is a local privilege escalation vulnerability affecting Apple Mac OS X and Mac OS X Server. It allows local users to execute arbitrary commands by manipulating the PATH environment variable to point to a malicious "touch" program, which DirectoryServices then executes. This vulnerability carries a CVSS score of 7.2, indicating high severity with full confidentiality, integrity, and availability impacts. While there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code exists on ExploitDB, and it has received minimal community discussion or media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
10.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:apple:mac_os_x:10.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
10.0.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:apple:mac_os_x:10.0.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
10.0.2CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:apple:mac_os_x:10.0.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
10.0.3CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:apple:mac_os_x:10.0.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
10.0.4CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:apple:mac_os_x:10.0.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
No social media mentions found for this CVE.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.5 GitHub mentions.
No media coverage found for this CVE.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.