Vulnerability in Apple Mac OS X

CVE-2013-5189

Apple Mac OS X before 10.9 does not preserve a certain administrative system-preferences setting across software updates, which allows context-dependent attackers to bypass intended access restrictions in opportunistic circumstances by leveraging an unintended security configuration after the completion of an update.

EPSS: 0.012 (63.7th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

  • Apple Mac_os_x — versions 10.8.0, 10.8.1, 10.8.2
  • N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

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