CVE-2013-3949 Privilege escalation in n/a

What is CVE-2013-3949?

CVE-2013-3949 is a low-severity vulnerability in Apple Mac Os X, published on 5 Jun 2013. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

The posix_spawn system call in the XNU kernel in Apple Mac OS X 10.8.x does not prevent use of the _POSIX_SPAWN_DISABLE_ASLR and _POSIX_SPAWN_ALLOW_DATA_EXEC flags for setuid and setgid programs, which allows local users to bypass intended access restrictions via a wrapper program that calls the posix_spawnattr_setflags function.

Weakness: CWE-264

Which versions are affected by CVE-2013-3949?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Apple Mac Os X.

How do I fix CVE-2013-3949?

No fix has been published for CVE-2013-3949 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Is CVE-2013-3949 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2013-3949 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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