Description
The (1) Activity Monitor.app/Contents/Resources/pmTool, (2) Keychain Access.app/Contents/Resources/kcproxy, and (3) ODBC Administrator.app/Contents/Resources/iodbcadmintool programs in /Applications/Utilities/ in Mac OS X 10.4.8 have weak permissions (writable by admin group), which allows local admin users to gain root privileges by modifying a program and then performing permissions repair via diskutil.
References
- 32700 vdb-entry
- 32701 vdb-entry
- http://projects.info-pull.com/moab/MOAB-15-01-2007.html
- 3136 exploit
- macosx-applications-privilege-escalation(31530) vdb-entry
- 32702 vdb-entry