CVE-2004-0824 describes a local privilege escalation vulnerability in PPPDialer for Mac OS X versions 10.2.8 through 10.3.5, allowing local users to overwrite system files via a symlink attack on its log files. This vulnerability has a low CVSS score of 2.1, indicating a local attack vector with low complexity and a potential impact of partial integrity loss. While there is no evidence of active exploitation, an exploit is available on ExploitDB, and the CVE has garnered significant community discussion, despite no media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
10.2.8CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:apple:mac_os_x:10.2.8:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
10.3CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:apple:mac_os_x:10.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
10.3.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:apple:mac_os_x:10.3.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
10.3.2CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:apple:mac_os_x:10.3.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
10.3.3CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:apple:mac_os_x:10.3.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.6 GitHub mentions.
No media coverage found for this CVE.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.