CVE-2013-5136

medium
Published 2013-10-24 ยท Modified 2026-04-29
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
4.3

Description

Apple Remote Desktop before 3.7 does not properly use server authentication-type information during decisions about whether to present an unencrypted-connection warning message, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information in opportunistic circumstances by sniffing the network during an unintended cleartext VNC session.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
macos appleapple_remote_desktop{"endIncluding":"3.6.2"}
macos appleapple_remote_desktop3.0.0
macos appleapple_remote_desktop3.1
macos appleapple_remote_desktop3.2
macos appleapple_remote_desktop3.2.1
macos appleapple_remote_desktop3.2.2
macos appleapple_remote_desktop3.3
macos appleapple_remote_desktop3.3.1
macos appleapple_remote_desktop3.3.2
macos appleapple_remote_desktop3.4
macos appleapple_remote_desktop3.5
macos appleapple_remote_desktop3.5.1
macos appleapple_remote_desktop3.5.2
macos appleapple_remote_desktop3.5.3
macos appleapple_remote_desktop3.5.4
macos appleapple_remote_desktop3.6
macos appleapple_remote_desktop3.6.1

References

CWEs

CWE-200

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

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