CVE-2013-0973

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2013-03-15 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Software Update in Apple Mac OS X through 10.7.5 does not prevent plugin loading within the marketing-text WebView, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to execute plugin code by modifying the client-server data stream.

Affected products

macOS: 10.6.8, 10.7.0, 10.7.1, 10.7.2, 10.7.3, 10.7.4 (+1)
Apple Mac Os X Server: 10.6.8, 10.7.0, 10.7.1, 10.7.2, 10.7.3, 10.7.4 (+1)

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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