CVE-2007-0345 — The (1) Activity Monitor.app/Contents/Resources/pmTool, (2) Keychain Access.app/Contents/Resources/kcproxy, and (3) ODBC Administrator.app/Contents/Resources/iodbcadmintool programs in /Applications/Utilities/ in Mac OS X 10.4.8 have weak permissions (writable by admin group), which allows local admin users to gain root privileges by modifying a program and then performing permissions repair via diskutil

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MEDIUM

The (1) Activity Monitor.app/Contents/Resources/pmTool, (2) Keychain Access.app/Contents/Resources/kcproxy, and (3) ODBC Administrator.app/Contents/Resources/iodbcadmintool programs in /Applications/Utilities/ in Mac OS X 10.4.8 have weak permissions (writable by admin group), which allows local admin users to gain root privileges by modifying a program and then performing permissions repair via diskutil

Published Jan 18, 2007

6.8

MEDIUM

CVSS 2.0

EPSS 0.43%

Description

The (1) Activity Monitor.app/Contents/Resources/pmTool, (2) Keychain Access.app/Contents/Resources/kcproxy, and (3) ODBC Administrator.app/Contents/Resources/iodbcadmintool programs in /Applications/Utilities/ in Mac OS X 10.4.8 have weak permissions (writable by admin group), which allows local admin users to gain root privileges by modifying a program and then performing permissions repair via diskutil.

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Metrics

0.43% 0.00425

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

EPSS probability 0.00425

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 (10 key points)

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

Date	Score	Percentile	Model
Oct 1, 2026	0.43% (0.00425)	34.47th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Jun 15, 2026	0.41% (0.00412)	32.62th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Mar 17, 2025	0.04% (0.00045)	11.07th	v4 (v2025.03.14)
Dec 12, 2024	0.10% (0.00100)	43.06th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Jun 20, 2024	0.10% (0.00101)	41.76th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 7, 2023	0.10% (0.00100)	39.75th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 6, 2023	1.03% (0.01034)	41.69th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Sep 10, 2022	1.03% (0.01034)	39.91th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Apr 1, 2022	1.03% (0.01034)	37.91th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Feb 4, 2022	1.03% (0.01034)	20.32th	v2 (v2022.01.01)

Weaknesses (0)

No CWE recorded.

References (6)

http://projects.info-pull.com/moab/MOAB-15-01-2007.html
x_refsource_MISCExploit
http://www.osvdb.org/32700
vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDB
http://www.osvdb.org/32701
vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDB
http://www.osvdb.org/32702
vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDB
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/31530
vdb-entryx_refsource_XF
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/3136
exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DB

Link	Providers	Tags
http://projects.info-pull.com/moab/MOAB-15-01-2007.html		x_refsource_MISCExploit
http://www.osvdb.org/32700		vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDB
http://www.osvdb.org/32701		vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDB
http://www.osvdb.org/32702		vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDB
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/31530		vdb-entryx_refsource_XF
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/3136		exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DB

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources

CVE.org / MITRE

Status PUBLISHED

Assigner mitre

Published Jan 18, 2007

Updated Aug 7, 2024

Reserved Jan 17, 2007

Link CVE-2007-0345

CISA Vulnrichment

Updated n/a

NVD

Status Modified

Modified Jun 16, 2026

Link CVE-2007-0345

Red Hat

Severity n/a

Public date n/a

Links CVE-2007-0345