CVE-2012-0657

low

Published 2012-05-11 · Modified 2026-04-29

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

2.1

Description

Quartz Composer in Apple Mac OS X before 10.7.4, when the RSS Visualizer screensaver is enabled, allows physically proximate attackers to bypass screen locking and launch a Safari process via unspecified vectors.

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.

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OS impact

macOS Affected 70 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
10.7.2	Affected	—
10.7.1	Affected	—
10.7.0	Affected	—
10.6.8	Affected	—
10.6.7	Affected	—
10.6.6	Affected	—
10.6.5	Affected	—
10.6.4	Affected	—
10.6.3	Affected	—
10.6.2	Affected	—
10.6.1	Affected	—
10.6.0	Affected	—
10.5.8	Affected	—
10.5.7	Affected	—
10.5.6	Affected	—
10.5.5	Affected	—
10.5.4	Affected	—
10.5.3	Affected	—
10.5.2	Affected	—
10.5.1	Affected	—
10.5.0	Affected	—
10.5	Affected	—
10.4.11	Affected	—
10.4.10	Affected	—
10.4.9	Affected	—
10.4.8	Affected	—
10.4.7	Affected	—
10.4.6	Affected	—
10.4.5	Affected	—
10.4.4	Affected	—
10.4.3	Affected	—
10.4.2	Affected	—
10.4.1	Affected	—
10.4.0	Affected	—
10.4	Affected	—
10.3.9	Affected	—
10.3.8	Affected	—
10.3.7	Affected	—
10.3.6	Affected	—
10.3.5	Affected	—
10.3.4	Affected	—
10.3.3	Affected	—
10.3.2	Affected	—
10.3.1	Affected	—
10.3.0	Affected	—
10.3	Affected	—
10.2.8	Affected	—
10.2.7	Affected	—
10.2.6	Affected	—
10.2.5	Affected	—
10.2.4	Affected	—
10.2.3	Affected	—
10.2.2	Affected	—
10.2.1	Affected	—
10.2.0	Affected	—
10.2	Affected	—
10.1.5	Affected	—
10.1.4	Affected	—
10.1.3	Affected	—
10.1.2	Affected	—
10.1.1	Affected	—
10.1.0	Affected	—
10.1	Affected	—
10.0.4	Affected	—
10.0.3	Affected	—
10.0.2	Affected	—
10.0.1	Affected	—
10.0.0	Affected	—
10.0	Affected	—
—	Affected	—

References

CWEs

CWE-264

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

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