CVE-2004-0821 describes a local privilege escalation vulnerability in the Core Foundation framework's CFPlugIn component within Apple Mac OS X and Mac OS X Server. This flaw allows user-supplied libraries to be loaded, potentially granting local attackers elevated privileges. With a CVSS score of 7.2 (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C), it indicates high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability, requiring local access and low attack complexity. Despite its age and high community discussion (10 mentions), there is no evidence of active exploitation, nor are there known Metasploit, Nuclei, or ExploitDB modules available.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
10.2.8CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:apple:mac_os_x:10.2.8:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
10.3.4CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:apple:mac_os_x:10.3.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
10.3.5CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:apple:mac_os_x:10.3.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
10.2.8CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:apple:mac_os_x_server:10.2.8:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
10.3.4CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:apple:mac_os_x_server:10.3.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
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.