CVE-2013-1031

Severity: low (CVSS 3.3 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: 2013-09-16 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-264

Description

Power Management in Apple Mac OS X before 10.8.5 does not properly perform locking upon occurrences of a power assertion, which allows physically proximate attackers to bypass intended access restrictions by visiting an unattended workstation on which a locking failure had prevented the startup of the screen saver.

Affected products

macOS: through 10.8.4; 10.8.0, 10.8.1, 10.8.2, 10.8.3

References

http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2013/Sep/msg00002.html
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5880
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2013/Sep/msg00002.html
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5880

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