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>> Apple Mac OS X ARDAgent Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
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Title : Apple Mac OS X ARDAgent Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
VUPEN ID : VUPEN/ADV-2008-1905
CVE ID : CVE-2008-2830
CWE ID : CWE-264
Rated as : Moderate Risk 
Remotely Exploitable : No
Locally Exploitable : Yes
Release Date : 2008-06-24
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A vulnerability has been identified in Apple Mac OS X, which could be exploited by local attackers to gain elevated privileges. This issue is caused by an error in the setuid root "ARDAgent" (Apple Remote Desktop) utility that does not drop privileges when invoked via an AppleScript script, which could be exploited by malicious unprivileged users to execute arbitrary shell commands with "root" privileges.
Affected Products
Apple Mac OS X version 10.4
Apple Mac OS X version 10.5
Solution
VUPEN Security is not aware of any vendor-supplied patch.
References
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1905
http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/06/18/1919224
Credits
Vulnerability reported via Slashdot.
ChangeLog
2008-06-24 : Initial release
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