CVE-2003-0490

HIGH 7.2CVE-2003-0490 · Published 07/08/2003 · updated 16/06/2026

In short

CVE-2003-0490 is a HIGH (CVSS 7.2) vulnerability affecting retrospect client (dantz).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 0.34%, higher than 28.2% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
retrospect client dantz	`= 5.0.540`	No fix yet

Description

The installation of Dantz Retrospect Client 5.0.540 on MacOS X 10.2.6, and possibly other versions, creates critical directories and files with world-writable permissions, which allows local users to gain privileges as other users by replacing programs with malicious code.

References

marc.info

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