It's even worse than it seems if you talk about it as 'anybody'.
Most OSX boxes are probably single user devices. But you do not normally run as root/wheel, you need sudo (sometimes through a nice GUI) for software to get root privs.
It's not 'somebody' as if another person were logged into their own account. It's that malware running as you can now get root, to further compromise your system, without needing a sudo password.
Most OSX boxes are probably single user devices. But you do not normally run as root/wheel, you need sudo (sometimes through a nice GUI) for software to get root privs.
It's not 'somebody' as if another person were logged into their own account. It's that malware running as you can now get root, to further compromise your system, without needing a sudo password.