CVE-2012-0656

medium
Published 2012-05-11 · Modified 2026-04-29
CVSS v3
CVSS v2
6.9
VIR risk
6.9

Description

Race condition in LoginUIFramework in Apple Mac OS X 10.7.x before 10.7.4, when the Guest account is enabled, allows physically proximate attackers to login to arbitrary accounts by entering the account name and no password.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: product-security@apple.com — http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5281

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: product-security@apple.com — http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2012/May/msg00001.html

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
macos macos10.7.0affected
macos macos10.7.1affected
macos macos10.7.2affected
macos macos10.7.3affected

References

CWEs

CWE-362

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.