Power Management Locking Failure in Apple Mac OS X

Power Management Locking Failure in Apple Mac OS X

CVE-2013-1031 · LOW Severity

AV:L/AC:M/AU:N/C:P/I:P/A:N

Power Management in Apple Mac OS X before 10.8.5 does not properly perform locking upon occurrences of a power assertion, which allows physically proximate attackers to bypass intended access restrictions by visiting an unattended workstation on which a locking failure had prevented the startup of the screen saver.

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