CVE-2017-13872

2017-11-2917:00:00

apple

www.cve.org

6.8 Medium

AI Score

Confidence

High

0.149 Low

EPSS

Percentile

95.8%

JSON

An issue was discovered in certain Apple products. macOS High Sierra before Security Update 2017-001 is affected. The issue involves the “Directory Utility” component. It allows attackers to obtain administrator access without a password via certain interactions involving entry of the root user name.

CNA Affected

[
  {
    "product": "macOS High Sierra",
    "vendor": "n/a",
    "versions": [
      {
        "status": "affected",
        "version": "macOS High Sierra"
      }
    ]
  }
]