CVE-2008-0055: Apple Mac OS X
High severity, CVSS 7.2. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
Foundation in Apple Mac OS X 10.4.11 creates world-writable directories while NSFileManager copies files recursively and only modifies the permissions afterward, which allows local users to modify copied files to cause a denial of service and possibly gain privileges.
Affected products
Published 2008-03-18. Last modified 2026-06-16.