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CVE-2009-2834

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.9 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2009-11-10 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-264

Description

IOKit in Apple Mac OS X before 10.6.2 allows local users to modify the firmware of a (1) USB or (2) Bluetooth keyboard via unspecified vectors.

Affected products

• macOS: through 10.6.1; 10.0, 10.0.0, 10.0.1, 10.0.2, 10.0.3, 10.0.4 (+52)
• Apple Mac Os X Server: through 10.6.1; 10.0, 10.0.0, 10.0.1, 10.0.2, 10.0.3, 10.0.4 (+52)

References

• http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2009/Nov/msg00000.html
• http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3937
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/36956
• http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/3184
• http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2009/Nov/msg00000.html
• http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3937
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/36956
• http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/3184

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