{"vuid":"VU#557064","idnumber":"557064","name":"Apple Mac OS X DirectoryService may allow arbitrary users to change the root password","keywords":["Apple","Mac OS X","DirectoryService","root password","apple_2007-003"],"overview":"A vulnerabilty in the Apple Mac OS X DirectoryService may allow unprivileged users to change the root password.","clean_desc":"The Apple Mac OS X DirectoryService contains a vulnerability that may allow unprivileged LDAP users to change the local root password. According to Apple security document 305214 : An implementation flaw in DirectoryService allows an unprivileged LDAP user to change the local root password. The authentication mechanism in DirectoryService has been fixed to address this issue.","impact":"An unprivileged attacker may be able to change the local root password.","resolution":"Upgrade Apple has published Mac OS X 10.4.9 for Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger) systems and Security Update 2007-003 for Mac OS X 10.3 (Panther) systems in response to this issue. See Apple Security Update 2007-003 for more details.","workarounds":"","sysaffected":"","thanks":"This vulnerability was reported in Apple Security Update \n2007-003","author":"This document was written by Chris Taschner.","public":["http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=305214","http://secunia.com/advisories/24479/"],"cveids":["CVE-2007-0723"],"certadvisory":"","uscerttechnicalalert":null,"datecreated":"2007-03-13T21:21:01Z","publicdate":"2007-03-13T00:00:00Z","datefirstpublished":"2007-03-14T17:15:04Z","dateupdated":"2007-03-14T18:05:53Z","revision":19,"vrda_d1_directreport":"0","vrda_d1_population":"3","vrda_d1_impact":"4","cam_widelyknown":"15","cam_exploitation":"0","cam_internetinfrastructure":"5","cam_population":"15","cam_impact":"20","cam_easeofexploitation":"4","cam_attackeraccessrequired":"10","cam_scorecurrent":"4.5","cam_scorecurrentwidelyknown":"5.625","cam_scorecurrentwidelyknownexploited":"10.125","ipprotocol":"","cvss_accessvector":"","cvss_accesscomplexity":"","cvss_authentication":null,"cvss_confidentialityimpact":"","cvss_integrityimpact":"","cvss_availabilityimpact":"","cvss_exploitablity":null,"cvss_remediationlevel":"","cvss_reportconfidence":"","cvss_collateraldamagepotential":"","cvss_targetdistribution":"","cvss_securityrequirementscr":"","cvss_securityrequirementsir":"","cvss_securityrequirementsar":"","cvss_basescore":"","cvss_basevector":"","cvss_temporalscore":"","cvss_environmentalscore":"","cvss_environmentalvector":"","metric":4.5,"vulnote":null}