CVE-2013-5181 (GCVE-0-2013-5181)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2013-10-24 01:00 – Updated: 2024-09-16 18:44
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Summary
The auto-configuration feature in Mail in Apple Mac OS X before 10.9 selects plaintext authentication for unspecified servers that support CRAM-MD5 authentication, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information by sniffing the network.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_APPLE
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