CVE-2003-0171

First published: Tue Apr 15 2003(Updated: )

DirectoryServices in MacOS X trusts the PATH environment variable to locate and execute the touch command, which allows local users to execute arbitrary commands by modifying the PATH to point to a directory containing a malicious touch program.

Credit: cve@mitre.org

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