Vulnerabilities > CVE-2006-3669 - Information Disclosure vulnerability in Mercury Messenger Users Directory

047910
CVSS 2.1 - LOW
Attack vector
LOCAL
Attack complexity
LOW
Privileges required
NONE
Confidentiality impact
PARTIAL
Integrity impact
NONE
Availability impact
NONE
local
low complexity
mercury-messenger

Summary

Mercury Messenger, possibly 1.7.1.1 and other versions, when running on a multi-user Mac OS X platform, stores chat logs with world-readable permissions within the /Users directory, which allows local users to read the chat logs from other users. Successful exploitation requires that the environment is a multi-user Mac OS X platform.

Vulnerable Configurations

Part Description Count
Application
Mercury_Messenger
1