CVE-2005-0712 — Mac OS X before 10.3.8 users world-writable permissions for certain directories, which may allow local users to gain privileges, possibly via the receipt cache or ColorSync profiles

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Mac OS X before 10.3.8 users world-writable permissions for certain directories, which may allow local users to gain privileges, possibly via the receipt cache or ColorSync profiles

Published Mar 22, 2005

4.6

MEDIUM

CVSS 2.0

EPSS 0.31%

Description

Mac OS X before 10.3.8 users world-writable permissions for certain directories, which may allow local users to gain privileges, possibly via the receipt cache or ColorSync profiles.

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Metrics

0.31% 0.00308

Estimated probability of exploitation in the wild in the next 30 days (FIRST EPSS). As of Oct 1, 2026.

EPSS probability 0.00308

Score over time

2022–2026

EPSS v2
EPSS v3
EPSS v4
EPSS v5

Percentile over time

EPSS v2
EPSS v3
EPSS v4
EPSS v5

Table of values (9 key points)

Flat stretches are collapsed; showing up to 120 newest points.

Date	Score	Percentile	Model
Oct 1, 2026	0.31% (0.00308)	21.37th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Jun 15, 2026	0.31% (0.00308)	22.23th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Mar 17, 2025	0.04% (0.00040)	9.15th	v4 (v2025.03.14)
Dec 12, 2024	0.04% (0.00042)	5.07th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 7, 2023	0.04% (0.00042)	5.63th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 6, 2023	0.89% (0.00885)	27.89th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Sep 10, 2022	0.89% (0.00885)	26.24th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Apr 1, 2022	0.89% (0.00885)	24.24th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Feb 4, 2022	0.89% (0.00885)	10.50th	v2 (v2022.01.01)

Weaknesses (0)

No CWE recorded.

References (1)

http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2005/Mar/msg00000.html
vendor-advisoryx_refsource_APPLE

Link	Providers	Tags
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2005/Mar/msg00000.html		vendor-advisoryx_refsource_APPLE

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources

CVE.org / MITRE

Status PUBLISHED

Assigner mitre

Published Mar 22, 2005

Updated Sep 16, 2024

Reserved Mar 11, 2005

Link CVE-2005-0712

CISA Vulnrichment

Updated n/a

NVD

Status Modified

Modified Jun 16, 2026

Link CVE-2005-0712

Red Hat

Severity n/a

Public date n/a

Links CVE-2005-0712