CVE-2013-1031
Description
Power Management in Apple Mac OS X before 10.8.5 does not properly perform locking upon occurrences of a power assertion, which allows physically proximate attackers to bypass intended access restrictions by visiting an unattended workstation on which a locking failure had prevented the startup of the screen saver.
Predictions
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 — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.
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OS impact
macOS Affected 5 releases
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| 10.8.3 | Affected | — |
| 10.8.2 | Affected | — |
| 10.8.1 | Affected | — |
| 10.8.0 | Affected | — |
| — | Affected | — |
References
CWEs
CWE-264
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.