CVE-2013-5163

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.6 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: 2013-10-04 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-287

Description

Directory Services in Apple Mac OS X before 10.8.5 Supplemental Update allows local users to bypass password-based authentication and modify arbitrary Directory Services records via unspecified vectors.

Affected products

macOS: through 10.8.5; 10.8.0, 10.8.1, 10.8.2, 10.8.3, 10.8.4

References

http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2013/Oct/msg00000.html
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2013/Oct/msg00000.html

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