CVE-2012-3723

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.6 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: 2012-09-20 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

Apple Mac OS X before 10.7.5 does not properly handle the bNbrPorts field of a USB hub descriptor, which allows physically proximate attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (memory corruption and system crash) by attaching a USB device.

Affected products

macOS: through 10.7.4; 10.0, 10.0.0, 10.0.1, 10.0.2, 10.0.3, 10.0.4 (+64)
Apple Mac Os X Server: through 10.7.4; 10.0, 10.0.0, 10.0.1, 10.0.2, 10.0.3, 10.0.4 (+64)

References

http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2012/Sep/msg00004.html
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5501
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/78750
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2012/Sep/msg00004.html
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5501
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/78750

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