CVE-2013-1027 — Installer in Apple Mac OS X before 10.8.5 provides an option to continue a package's installation after encountering a revoked certificate, which might allow user-assisted remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted package

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Installer in Apple Mac OS X before 10.8.5 provides an option to continue a package's installation after encountering a revoked certificate, which might allow user-assisted remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted package

Published Sep 16, 2013

6.8

MEDIUM

CVSS 2.0

EPSS 1.59%

Description

Installer in Apple Mac OS X before 10.8.5 provides an option to continue a package's installation after encountering a revoked certificate, which might allow user-assisted remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted package.

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Metrics

1.59% 0.01589

Estimated probability of exploitation in the wild in the next 30 days (FIRST EPSS). As of Oct 1, 2026.

EPSS probability 0.01589

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 (14 key points)

Flat stretches are collapsed; showing up to 120 newest points.

Date	Score	Percentile	Model
Oct 1, 2026	1.59% (0.01589)	74.74th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Jun 15, 2026	1.59% (0.01589)	72.38th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Dec 7, 2025	0.49% (0.00489)	64.64th	v4 (v2025.03.14)
Mar 25, 2025	4.09% (0.04089)	87.44th	v4 (v2025.03.14)
Mar 17, 2025	2.22% (0.02216)	83.31th	v4 (v2025.03.14)
Dec 12, 2024	0.66% (0.00658)	80.22th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
May 10, 2024	0.31% (0.00309)	69.79th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Apr 25, 2024	0.30% (0.00296)	68.97th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 15, 2024	0.28% (0.00279)	67.61th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Feb 8, 2024	0.28% (0.00284)	67.76th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 7, 2023	0.66% (0.00658)	76.34th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 6, 2023	5.82% (0.05822)	90.47th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Apr 1, 2022	5.82% (0.05822)	89.53th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Feb 4, 2022	5.82% (0.05822)	77.35th	v2 (v2022.01.01)

Weaknesses (1)

CWE-264

References (2)

http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2013/Sep/msg00002.html
vendor-advisoryx_refsource_APPLEPatchVendor Advisory
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5880
x_refsource_CONFIRMPatchVendor Advisory

Link	Providers	Tags
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2013/Sep/msg00002.html		vendor-advisoryx_refsource_APPLEPatchVendor Advisory
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5880		x_refsource_CONFIRMPatchVendor Advisory

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources

CVE.org / MITRE

Status PUBLISHED

Assigner apple

Published Sep 16, 2013

Updated Sep 16, 2024

Reserved Jan 10, 2013

Link CVE-2013-1027

CISA Vulnrichment

Updated n/a

NVD

Status Modified

Modified Jun 16, 2026

Link CVE-2013-1027

Red Hat

Severity n/a

Public date n/a

Links CVE-2013-1027