CVE-2010-1820

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2010-09-21 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-287

Description

Apple Filing Protocol (AFP) Server in Apple Mac OS X 10.6.x through 10.6.4 does not properly handle errors, which allows remote attackers to bypass the password requirement for shared-folder access by leveraging knowledge of a valid account name.

Affected products

macOS: 10.6.0, 10.6.1, 10.6.2, 10.6.3, 10.6.4
Apple Mac Os X Server: 10.6.0, 10.6.1, 10.6.2, 10.6.3, 10.6.4

References

http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2010/Sep/msg00004.html
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4361
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/43341
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A12109
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2010/Sep/msg00004.html
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4361
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/43341
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A12109

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