CVE-2005-2508
dsidentity in Directory Services in Mac OS X 10.4.2 allows local users to add or remove user accounts.
Does this matter?
A public exploit is published in Exploit-DB (verified), so the technical barrier is gone even though the severity is medium and EPSS is 0.7%. Treat it as high on anything reachable from the internet.
Description
dsidentity in Directory Services in Mac OS X 10.4.2 allows local users to add or remove user accounts.
- CVSS 2.0
- 4.6 MEDIUMAV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
- EPSS
- 0.69% probability · 52th percentile
- Public exploits
- 1 in Exploit-DB · verified · first 15 August 2005
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Affected
- apple/mac os x · apple/mac os x server
- Source
- cve@mitre.org
EPSS 0.7% since 26 October 2026; no change recorded yet. Points are recorded when the score first appears and whenever it moves by a percentage point or more.
Public exploits (1)
Entries in Exploit-DB that cite this CVE. Links go to the Exploit-DB page and to the file in the public repository; nothing is hosted here. A verified tick means the Exploit-DB team confirmed the exploit works against the stated version.
References
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2005//Aug/msg00001.htmlPatch
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2005/Aug/msg00000.htmlPatch
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2005//Aug/msg00001.htmlPatch
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2005/Aug/msg00000.htmlPatch
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.