CVE-2011-0190

medium
Published 2011-03-23 ยท Modified 2026-04-29
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
4.3

Description

Install Helper in Installer in Apple Mac OS X before 10.6.7 does not properly process an unspecified URL, which might allow remote attackers to track user logins by logging network traffic from an agent that was intended to send network traffic to an Apple server.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or โ€” if you've already worked around this in production โ€” publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

โœš Propose a mitigation on Community โ†’ Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here with source_tier=community-verified.

OS impact

macos macOS Affected 7 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
10.6.6 Affected โ€”
10.6.5 Affected โ€”
10.6.4 Affected โ€”
10.6.3 Affected โ€”
10.6.2 Affected โ€”
10.6.1 Affected โ€”
10.6.0 Affected โ€”

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
macos appleinstaller

References

CWEs

CWE-20

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.