VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2013-5135

high
Published 2013-10-24 · 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
7.5

Description

Format string vulnerability in Screen Sharing Server in Apple Mac OS X before 10.9 and Apple Remote Desktop before 3.5.4 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via format string specifiers in a VNC username.

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 macOS Affected 7 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
10.8.5 Affected —
10.8.4 Affected —
10.8.3 Affected —
10.8.2 Affected —
10.8.1 Affected —
10.8.0 Affected —
— Affected —

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
macos appleapple_remote_desktop{"endIncluding":"3.5.3"}
macos appleapple_remote_desktop3.0.0
macos appleapple_remote_desktop3.1
macos appleapple_remote_desktop3.2
macos appleapple_remote_desktop3.2.1
macos appleapple_remote_desktop3.2.2
macos appleapple_remote_desktop3.3
macos appleapple_remote_desktop3.3.1
macos appleapple_remote_desktop3.3.2
macos appleapple_remote_desktop3.4
macos appleapple_remote_desktop3.5
macos appleapple_remote_desktop3.5.1
macos appleapple_remote_desktop3.5.2

References

CWEs

CWE-134

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

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