CVE-2013-0969 — Login Window in Apple Mac OS X before 10.8.3 does not prevent application launching with the VoiceOver feature, which allows physically proximate attackers to bypass authentication and make arbitrary System Preferences changes via unspecified use of the keyboard

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Login Window in Apple Mac OS X before 10.8.3 does not prevent application launching with the VoiceOver feature, which allows physically proximate attackers to bypass authentication and make arbitrary System Preferences changes via unspecified use of the keyboard

Published Mar 15, 2013

4.9

MEDIUM

CVSS 2.0

EPSS 0.39%

Description

Login Window in Apple Mac OS X before 10.8.3 does not prevent application launching with the VoiceOver feature, which allows physically proximate attackers to bypass authentication and make arbitrary System Preferences changes via unspecified use of the keyboard.

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Metrics

0.39% 0.00393

Estimated probability of exploitation in the wild in the next 30 days (FIRST EPSS). As of Oct 2, 2026.

EPSS probability 0.00393

Score over time

2022–2026

EPSS v2
EPSS v3
EPSS v4
EPSS v5

Percentile over time

EPSS v2
EPSS v3
EPSS v4
EPSS v5

Table of values (13 key points)

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Date	Score	Percentile	Model
Oct 2, 2026	0.39% (0.00393)	31.14th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Jun 15, 2026	0.39% (0.00393)	30.87th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Mar 17, 2025	0.06% (0.00063)	17.01th	v4 (v2025.03.14)
Dec 12, 2024	0.06% (0.00060)	27.38th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Apr 25, 2024	0.05% (0.00051)	18.80th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 15, 2024	0.05% (0.00050)	16.38th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Feb 8, 2024	0.04% (0.00045)	12.01th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Sep 30, 2023	0.06% (0.00062)	24.52th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 7, 2023	0.07% (0.00070)	28.26th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 6, 2023	0.89% (0.00885)	27.89th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Sep 10, 2022	0.89% (0.00885)	26.24th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Apr 1, 2022	0.89% (0.00885)	24.24th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Feb 4, 2022	0.89% (0.00885)	10.50th	v2 (v2022.01.01)

Weaknesses (1)

CWE-264

References (1)

http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2013/Mar/msg00002.html
vendor-advisoryx_refsource_APPLEVendor Advisory

Link	Providers	Tags
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2013/Mar/msg00002.html		vendor-advisoryx_refsource_APPLEVendor Advisory

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources

CVE.org / MITRE

Status PUBLISHED

Assigner apple

Published Mar 15, 2013

Updated Sep 16, 2024

Reserved Jan 10, 2013

Link CVE-2013-0969

CISA Vulnrichment

Updated n/a

NVD

Status Modified

Modified Jun 16, 2026

Link CVE-2013-0969

Red Hat

Severity n/a

Public date n/a

Links CVE-2013-0969