CVE-2005-1430: Apple Mac OS X

Low severity, CVSS 3.6. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Mac OS X 10.3.x and earlier uses insecure permissions for a pseudo terminal tty (pty) that is managed by a non-setuid program, which allows local users to read or modify sessions of other users.

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 2005-05-03. Last modified 2026-06-16.