CVEvulnerability
CVE-2009-2818
5.0 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2009-11-10
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-264
Description
Adaptive Firewall in Apple Mac OS X before 10.6.2 does not properly handle invalid usernames in SSH login attempts, which makes it easier for remote attackers to obtain login access via a brute-force attack (aka dictionary attack).
Affected configurations
• apple mac os x server (<= 10.6.1)
• apple mac os x server 10.0
• apple mac os x server 10.0.0
• apple mac os x server 10.0.1
• apple mac os x server 10.0.2
• apple mac os x server 10.0.3
• apple mac os x server 10.0.4
• apple mac os x server 10.1
• apple mac os x server 10.1.0
• apple mac os x server 10.1.1
• apple mac os x server 10.1.2
• apple mac os x server 10.1.3
• apple mac os x server 10.1.4
• apple mac os x server 10.1.5
• apple mac os x server 10.2
• apple mac os x server 10.2.0
• apple mac os x server 10.2.1
• apple mac os x server 10.2.2
• apple mac os x server 10.2.3
• apple mac os x server 10.2.4
• apple mac os x server 10.2.5
• apple mac os x server 10.2.6
• apple mac os x server 10.2.7
• apple mac os x server 10.2.8
• apple mac os x server 10.3
• apple mac os x server 10.3.0
• apple mac os x server 10.3.1
• apple mac os x server 10.3.2
• apple mac os x server 10.3.3
• apple mac os x server 10.3.4
• apple mac os x server 10.3.5
• apple mac os x server 10.3.6
• apple mac os x server 10.3.7
• apple mac os x server 10.3.8
• apple mac os x server 10.3.9
• apple mac os x server 10.4
• apple mac os x server 10.4.0
• apple mac os x server 10.4.1
• apple mac os x server 10.4.2
• apple mac os x server 10.4.3
• apple mac os x server 10.4.4
• apple mac os x server 10.4.5
• apple mac os x server 10.4.6
• apple mac os x server 10.4.7
• apple mac os x server 10.4.8
• apple mac os x server 10.4.9
• apple mac os x server 10.4.10
• apple mac os x server 10.4.11
• apple mac os x server 10.5
• apple mac os x server 10.5.0
• 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
• apple mac os x server 10.5.5
• apple mac os x server 10.5.6
• apple mac os x server 10.5.7
• apple mac os x server 10.5.8
• apple mac os x server 10.6
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2009/Nov/msg00000.html Vendor Advisory
- http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3937 Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/36956 Patch
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/3184 www.vupen.com
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2009/Nov/msg00000.html Vendor Advisory
- http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3937 Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/36956 Patch
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/3184 www.vupen.com