CVE-2005-1725
lowpriority · track · 18OT risk · elevatedEPSS 0.008 · 55 %ileexploit · functionalEUUSgrimoire priorityP1 · Urgent
Exploitable?
Public exploit
1 exploit · functional
Likely / severe?
0.76% (55th) EPSS
CVSS 2.1 · low
Who says so?
2 sources
enisa_euvd · nvd
EPSS · scored 2026-10-27
launchd 106 in Apple Mac OS X 10.4.x up to 10.4.1 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the socket file in an insecure temporary directory.
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cvss
Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.
2.1
010
base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode
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weaknesses
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exploits (1)
Public proof-of-concept and weaponised exploit code.
- EDB-1043Apple Mac OSX 10.4 - launchd Race Conditionfunctional · exploit_db
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affected products (3)
Products and version ranges known to be affected.
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also known as (2)
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sources
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published 2005-06-08modified 2026-06-16
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references (6)
External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2005/Jun/msg00000.htmlenisa_euvd
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=111833509424379&w=2enisa_euvd
- http://www.suresec.org/advisories/adv3.pdfenisa_euvd
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2005/Jun/msg00000.htmlPatchVendor Advisorynvd
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=111833509424379&w=2nvd
- http://www.suresec.org/advisories/adv3.pdfVendor Advisorynvd
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