CVE-2001-1446 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

Find-By-Content in Mac OS X 10.0 through 10.0.4 creates world-readable index files named .FBCIndex in every directory, which allows remote attackers to learn the contents of files in web accessible directories.

Published: 2005-04-21

Score: 7.5 High

EPSS: < 1% Very Low

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions

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n/a

affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

OR	cpe:2.3:o:apple:mac_os_x:10.0:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:o:apple:mac_os_x:10.0.1:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:o:apple:mac_os_x:10.0.2:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:o:apple:mac_os_x:10.0.3:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:o:apple:mac_os_x:10.0.4:::::::*

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Remediation

No vendor fix or workaround currently provided.

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Tracking

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2001-1426	Find-By-Content in Mac OS X 10.0 through 10.0.4 creates world-readable index files named .FBCIndex in every directory, which allows remote attackers to learn the contents of files in web accessible directories.

No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

No CVSS v3.0

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Low

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact Partial

Integrity Impact Partial

Availability Impact Partial

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00527.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

Link	Providers
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2001-09/0085.html
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/177243
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/3325
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/7103

History

No history.

Subscriptions

Apple Mac Os X

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2005-04-21T04:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2024-08-08T04:58:11.168Z

Reserved: 2005-04-21T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2001-1446

Vulnrichment

No data.

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2001-09-11T04:00:00.000

Modified: 2026-04-16T00:27:16.627

Link: CVE-2001-1446

Redhat

No data.

OpenCVE Enrichment

No data.

Weaknesses

NVD-CWE-Other

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