CVSS 3.0
8.1 highCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HCVE-2017-13872
High (8.1) in apple mac os x. EPSS 37% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
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.
Severity
- EPSS
- 37% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 98% of CVEs (scores of 2026-11-01)
- CWE
- CWE-287
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced