CVE-2012-0657

low
Published 2012-05-11 · Modified 2026-04-29
CVSS v3
CVSS v2
2.1
VIR risk
2.1

Description

Quartz Composer in Apple Mac OS X before 10.7.4, when the RSS Visualizer screensaver is enabled, allows physically proximate attackers to bypass screen locking and launch a Safari process via unspecified vectors.

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 macosaffected
macos macos10.0affected
macos macos10.0.0affected
macos macos10.0.1affected
macos macos10.0.2affected
macos macos10.0.3affected
macos macos10.0.4affected
macos macos10.1affected
macos macos10.1.0affected
macos macos10.1.1affected
macos macos10.1.2affected
macos macos10.1.3affected
macos macos10.1.4affected
macos macos10.1.5affected
macos macos10.2affected
macos macos10.2.0affected
macos macos10.2.1affected
macos macos10.2.2affected
macos macos10.2.3affected
macos macos10.2.4affected
macos macos10.2.5affected
macos macos10.2.6affected
macos macos10.2.7affected
macos macos10.2.8affected
macos macos10.3affected
macos macos10.3.0affected
macos macos10.3.1affected
macos macos10.3.2affected
macos macos10.3.3affected
macos macos10.3.4affected
macos macos10.3.5affected
macos macos10.3.6affected
macos macos10.3.7affected
macos macos10.3.8affected
macos macos10.3.9affected
macos macos10.4affected
macos macos10.4.0affected
macos macos10.4.1affected
macos macos10.4.2affected
macos macos10.4.3affected
macos macos10.4.4affected
macos macos10.4.5affected
macos macos10.4.6affected
macos macos10.4.7affected
macos macos10.4.8affected
macos macos10.4.9affected
macos macos10.4.10affected
macos macos10.4.11affected
macos macos10.5affected
macos macos10.5.0affected
macos macos10.5.1affected
macos macos10.5.2affected
macos macos10.5.3affected
macos macos10.5.4affected
macos macos10.5.5affected
macos macos10.5.6affected
macos macos10.5.7affected
macos macos10.5.8affected
macos macos10.6.0affected
macos macos10.6.1affected
macos macos10.6.2affected
macos macos10.6.3affected
macos macos10.6.4affected
macos macos10.6.5affected
macos macos10.6.6affected
macos macos10.6.7affected
macos macos10.6.8affected
macos macos10.7.0affected
macos macos10.7.1affected
macos macos10.7.2affected

References

CWEs

CWE-264

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