CVE-2008-3610

no score yetEPSS 2.0%

Race condition in Login Window in Apple Mac OS X 10.5 through 10.5.4, when a blank-password account is enabled, allows attackers to bypass password authentication and login to any account via multiple attempts to login to the blank-password account, followed by selection of an arbitrary account from the user list.

EPSS: 2.0% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 81% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-287
Published: 2008-09-16
Modified: 2026-06-16
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

apple:mac_os_x
apple:mac_os_x_server

References

http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce//2008/Sep/msg00005.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/31882
http://securitytracker.com/id?1020878
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31189
http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA08-260A.html

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