CVE-2007-0752

The PPP daemon (pppd) in Apple Mac OS X 10.4.8 checks ownership of the stdin file descriptor to determine if the invoker has sufficient privileges, which allows local users to load arbitrary plugins and gain root privileges by bypassing this check.

CVSS v2.0

7.2 HIGHAV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

EPSS

0.72% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, 52th percentile

Published

2007-05-24

Updated

2024-08-07

ExploitDB entries (1)

• https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/3985

References

• CVE Record
• NVD entry

Related

• CVE-2007-0710
• CVE-2007-0753
• CVE-2007-0708
• CVE-2007-0756
• CVE-2007-0707
• CVE-2007-0757