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CVE-2012-0657

• Severity: low (CVSS 2.1 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2012-05-11 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-264

Description

Quartz Composer in Apple Mac OS X before 10.7.4, when the RSS Visualizer screensaver is enabled, allows physically proximate attackers to bypass screen locking and launch a Safari process via unspecified vectors.

Affected products

• macOS: through 10.7.3; 10.0, 10.0.0, 10.0.1, 10.0.2, 10.0.3, 10.0.4 (+63)
• Apple Mac Os X Server: through 10.7.3; 10.0, 10.0.0, 10.0.1, 10.0.2, 10.0.3, 10.0.4 (+63)

References

• http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2012/May/msg00001.html
• http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5281
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/53445
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/53473
• http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2012/May/msg00001.html
• http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5281
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/53445
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/53473

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