CVE Catalog

CVE-2005-1387

High
Published: Translated: NVD NIST

Summary

The vulnerability in Cocktail 3.5.4 and earlier on Mac OS X passes the administrative password in cleartext on the command line to sudo, allowing local users to gain sensitive information by listing processes.

Risk Assessment

The risk involves potential disclosure of the administrative password to local users, which could lead to unauthorized access to privileged system resources.

Recommendation

It is recommended to update Cocktail to the latest version that fixes this vulnerability and avoid passing passwords on the command line.

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Original NVD description (English source)

Cocktail 3.5.4 and possibly earlier in Mac OS X passes the administrative password on the command line to sudo in cleartext, which allows local users to gain sensitive information by running listing processes.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS