VAR-201310-0493

Vulnerability from variot - Updated: 2025-04-11 20:47

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. Apple Mac OS X is prone to an insecure authentication weakness. A remote attacker can exploit this issue to obtain a user's authentication credentials as they are sent to a server in plaintext format. Note: This issue was previously covered in BID 63282 (Apple Mac OS X APPLE-SA-2013-10-22-3 Multiple Security vulnerabilities), but has been given its own record to better document it. Mac OS X versions prior to 10.9. The vulnerability is caused by the Mail application choosing plain text authentication instead of CRAM-MD5 authentication

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Related by attack behaviour

Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.


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