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.
References (2)
Core 2
Core References
Patch, Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory
x_refsource_apple
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2013/Sep/msg00002.html
Patch, Vendor Advisory x_refsource_confirm
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5880
Scores
EPSS
0.0035
EPSS Percentile
27.8%
Details
CWE
CWE-264
Status
published
Products (5)
apple/mac_os_x
10.8.0
apple/mac_os_x
10.8.1
apple/mac_os_x
10.8.2
apple/mac_os_x
10.8.3
apple/mac_os_x
< 10.8.4
Published
Sep 16, 2013
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026