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CVE-2013-0969

Status: ModifiedMedium (4.9)—

Login Window in Apple Mac OS X before 10.8.3 does not prevent application launching with the VoiceOver feature, which allows physically proximate attackers to bypass authentication and make arbitrary System Preferences changes via unspecified use of the keyboard.

CVSS

Exploitation probability (EPSS)

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Affected technologies (1)

Apple — MAC OS X

CWEs

References

Raw JSON (NVD)

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