Medium 6.6Published Oct 4, 2013

CVE-2013-5163Directory 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 vecto…

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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.

CVSS: 6.6 MEDIUM (v2.0, NVD)AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:C/A:C
Weakness (CWE): CWE-287
Known exploited: Not in CISA's KEV catalog
EPSS (exploitation in the next 30 days): Not loaded for this CVE
Assigned by: Not given
NVD analysis: Modified
Record last updated: Jun 16, 2026
First seen by InfoSec Signals: Nov 1, 2026

Affected products

Affected products

apple mac_os_x apple:mac_os_x	through 10.8.5; 10.8.0; 10.8.1; 10.8.2; 10.8.3; 10.8.4	NVD

References

References

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

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