CVE-2001-1447: Apple Mac OS X

High severity, CVSS 7.2. EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

NetInfo Manager for Mac OS X 10.0 through 10.1 allows local users to gain root privileges by opening applications using the (1) "recent items" and (2) "services" menus, which causes the applications to run with root privileges.

Affected products

• Apple Mac OS X: version 10.0 only; version 10.0.1 only; version 10.0.2 only; version 10.0.3 only; version 10.0.4 only; version 10.1 only

Published 2001-10-17. Last modified 2026-06-16.