CVEvulnerability
CVE-2009-2836
6.2 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2009-11-10
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 6.2 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-362
Description
Race condition in Login Window in Apple Mac OS X 10.6.x before 10.6.2, when at least one account has a blank password, allows attackers to bypass password authentication and obtain login access to an arbitrary account via unspecified vectors.
Affected configurations
• apple mac os x 10.6
• apple mac os x 10.6.1
• apple mac os x server 10.6
• apple mac os x server 10.6.1
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-362 Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization weakness
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