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Apple Mac OS X does not properly warn the user before enabling additional Human Interface Device (HID) functionality over USB, which allows user-assisted attackers to execute arbitrary programs via crafted USB data, as demonstrated by keyboard and mouse data sent by malware on a smartphone that the user connected to the computer

Published Jan 25, 2011

Description

Apple Mac OS X does not properly warn the user before enabling additional Human Interface Device (HID) functionality over USB, which allows user-assisted attackers to execute arbitrary programs via crafted USB data, as demonstrated by keyboard and mouse data sent by malware on a smartphone that the user connected to the computer.

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Metrics

Weaknesses (1)

CWE-16

References (3)

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources
CVE.org / MITRE
Status PUBLISHED
Assigner mitre
Published Jan 25, 2011
Updated Sep 16, 2024
Reserved Jan 24, 2011
Link CVE-2011-0639
CISA Vulnrichment
Updated n/a
NVD
Status Modified
Modified Jun 16, 2026
Link CVE-2011-0639
Red Hat
Severity n/a
Public date n/a
Links CVE-2011-0639