CVE-2009-2840: Apple Mac OS X

Medium severity, CVSS 4.9. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Spotlight in Apple Mac OS X 10.5.8 does not properly handle temporary files, which allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files in the context of a different user's privileges via unspecified vectors.

Affected products

• Apple Mac OS X: version 10.5.8 only
• Apple Mac OS X Server: version 10.5.8 only

Published 2009-11-10. Last modified 2026-06-16.