Auth bypass in Apple Mac OS X
CVE-2008-3610
Race condition in Login Window in Apple Mac OS X 10.5 through 10.5.4, when a blank-password account is enabled, allows attackers to bypass password authentication and login to any account via multiple attempts to login to the blank-password account, followed by selection of an arbitrary account from the user list.
Vulnerability class: Broken Authentication
EPSS: 0.020 (79.1th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.
Affected products
- Apple Mac_os_x — versions 10.5, 10.5.1, 10.5.2
- Apple Mac_os_x_server — versions 10.5, 10.5.1, 10.5.2
- N/a — versions n/a
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- cve@mitre.org (Patch, vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID)
- cve@mitre.org (vdb-entry, x_refsource_XF)
- cve@mitre.org (vendor-advisory, x_refsource_APPLE, Patch)
- cve@mitre.org (US Government Resource, x_refsource_CERT, third-party-advisory)
- cve@mitre.org (vdb-entry, x_refsource_SECTRACK)
- cve@mitre.org (vdb-entry, x_refsource_VUPEN)
- cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_SECUNIA, third-party-advisory)