CVE-2013-5181

Severity

43%

Complexity

86%

Confidentiality

48%

The auto-configuration feature in Mail in Apple Mac OS X before 10.9 selects plaintext authentication for unspecified servers that support CRAM-MD5 authentication, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information by sniffing the network.

The auto-configuration feature in Mail in Apple Mac OS X before 10.9 selects plaintext authentication for unspecified servers that support CRAM-MD5 authentication, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information by sniffing the network.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 4.3. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: medium. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N).

Overview

Type

Apple Mac OS X

First reported 11 years ago

2013-10-24 03:48:00

Last updated 11 years ago

2013-10-24 23:40:00

Affected Software

Apple Mac OS X 10.8.0

10.8.0

Apple Mac OS X 10.8.1

10.8.1

Apple Mac OS X 10.8.2

10.8.2

Apple Mac OS X 10.8.3

10.8.3

Apple Mac OS X 10.8.4

10.8.4

Apple Mac OS X 10.8.5

10.8.5

References

APPLE-SA-2013-10-22-3

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