CVE-2005-0342: Apple Mac OS X

Low severity, CVSS 2.1. EPSS: 0.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The Finder in Mac OS X and earlier allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files and gain privileges by creating a hard link from the .DS_Store file to an arbitrary file.

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; …
• Apple Mac OS X Server: version 10.0 only; version 10.1 only; version 10.1.1 only; version 10.1.2 only; version 10.1.3 only; version 10.1.4 only; …

Published 2005-05-02. Last modified 2026-06-16.