CVE-2005-1387 — 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

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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

Published May 2, 2005

7.2

HIGH

CVSS 2.0

EPSS 0.34%

Description

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.

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Metrics

0.34% 0.00340

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

EPSS probability 0.00340

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	0.34% (0.00340)	25.09th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Jun 15, 2026	0.34% (0.00340)	25.64th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Mar 17, 2025	0.05% (0.00049)	12.28th	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	0.95% (0.00950)	32.28th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Sep 10, 2022	0.95% (0.00950)	30.63th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Apr 1, 2022	0.95% (0.00950)	28.61th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Feb 4, 2022	0.95% (0.00950)	13.46th	v2 (v2022.01.01)

Weaknesses (0)

No CWE recorded.

References (4)

http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=111480898530362&w=2
mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
http://secunia.com/advisories/15201
third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://www.osvdb.org/16046
vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDB
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/13449
vdb-entryx_refsource_BID

Link	Providers	Tags
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=111480898530362&w=2		mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
http://secunia.com/advisories/15201		third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://www.osvdb.org/16046		vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDB
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/13449		vdb-entryx_refsource_BID

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources

CVE.org / MITRE

Status PUBLISHED

Assigner mitre

Published May 2, 2005

Updated Aug 7, 2024

Reserved May 2, 2005

Link CVE-2005-1387

CISA Vulnrichment

Updated n/a

NVD

Status Modified

Modified Jun 16, 2026

Link CVE-2005-1387

Red Hat

Severity n/a

Public date n/a

Links CVE-2005-1387