CVEvulnerability
CVE-2011-0639
6.9 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2011-01-25
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 6.9 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-16
Description
Apple Mac OS X does not properly warn the user before enabling additional Human Interface Device (HID) functionality over USB, which allows user-assisted attackers to execute arbitrary programs via crafted USB data, as demonstrated by keyboard and mouse data sent by malware on a smartphone that the user connected to the computer.
Affected configurations
• apple mac os x
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://news.cnet.com/8301-27080_3-20028919-245.html news.cnet.com
- http://www.blackhat.com/html/bh-dc-11/bh-dc-11-briefings.html#Stavrou www.blackhat.com
- http://www.cs.gmu.edu/~astavrou/publications.html www.cs.gmu.edu
- http://news.cnet.com/8301-27080_3-20028919-245.html news.cnet.com
- http://www.blackhat.com/html/bh-dc-11/bh-dc-11-briefings.html#Stavrou www.blackhat.com
- http://www.cs.gmu.edu/~astavrou/publications.html www.cs.gmu.edu