CVE-2009-0141: Apple Mac OS X

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

XTerm in Apple Mac OS X 10.4.11 and 10.5.6, when used with luit, creates tty devices with insecure world-writable permissions, which allows local users to write to the Xterm of another user.

Affected products

• Apple Mac OS X: version 10.4.11 only; version 10.5.6 only
• Apple Mac OS X Server: version 10.4.11 only; version 10.5.6 only

Published 2009-02-13. Last modified 2026-06-16.