CVE-2013-5185

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

The ldapsearch command-line program in OpenLDAP in Apple Mac OS X before 10.9 does not properly process the minssf configuration setting, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information by leveraging unintended weak encryption and sniffing the network.

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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OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
macos macosaffected
macos macos10.8.0affected
macos macos10.8.1affected
macos macos10.8.2affected
macos macos10.8.3affected
macos macos10.8.4affected
macos macos10.8.5affected

References

CWEs

CWE-310

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

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