VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2014-1347

medium
Published 2014-05-18 · Modified 2026-05-06
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CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
4.4

Description

Apple iTunes before 11.2.1 on OS X sets world-writable permissions for /Users and /Users/Shared during reboots, which allows local users to modify files, and consequently obtain access to arbitrary user accounts, via standard filesystem operations.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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OS impact
OSVersionStatusFixed in
macos macosnot-affected

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
macos appleitunes{"endIncluding":"11.2"}
macos appleitunes11.0
macos appleitunes11.0.1
macos appleitunes11.0.2
macos appleitunes11.0.3
macos appleitunes11.0.4
macos appleitunes11.0.5
macos appleitunes11.1
macos appleitunes11.1.1
macos appleitunes11.1.2
macos appleitunes11.1.3
macos appleitunes11.1.4
macos appleitunes11.1.5

References

CWEs

CWE-264

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.