CVEvulnerability
CVE-2008-3610
7.6 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2008-09-16
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 7.6 HIGH — AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-287
Description
Race condition in Login Window in Apple Mac OS X 10.5 through 10.5.4, when a blank-password account is enabled, allows attackers to bypass password authentication and login to any account via multiple attempts to login to the blank-password account, followed by selection of an arbitrary account from the user list.
Affected configurations
• apple mac os x 10.5
• apple mac os x 10.5.1
• apple mac os x 10.5.2
• apple mac os x 10.5.3
• apple mac os x 10.5.4
• apple mac os x server 10.5
• apple mac os x server 10.5.1
• apple mac os x server 10.5.2
• apple mac os x server 10.5.3
• apple mac os x server 10.5.4
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-287 Improper Authentication weakness
References
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce//2008/Sep/msg00005.html Patch
- http://secunia.com/advisories/31882 secunia.com
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1020878 securitytracker.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31189 Patch
- http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA08-260A.html US Government Resource
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2584 www.vupen.com
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/45170 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce//2008/Sep/msg00005.html Patch
- http://secunia.com/advisories/31882 secunia.com
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1020878 securitytracker.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31189 Patch
- http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA08-260A.html US Government Resource
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2584 www.vupen.com
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/45170 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com