CVE-2013-0969

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.9 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: 2013-03-15 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-264

Description

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.

Affected products

macOS: 10.8.0, 10.8.1, 10.8.2

References

http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2013/Mar/msg00002.html
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2013/Mar/msg00002.html

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