01 Record
CVE-2009-0151
The screen saver in Dock in Apple Mac OS X 10.5 before 10.5.8 does not prevent four-finger Multi-Touch gestures, which allows physically proximate attackers to bypass locking and "manage applications
UnratedPUBLISHEDCNA: mitre
CNA base scoreUnratedNo CNA CVSS vector
02 Description
The screen saver in Dock in Apple Mac OS X 10.5 before 10.5.8 does not prevent four-finger Multi-Touch gestures, which allows physically proximate attackers to bypass locking and "manage applications
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 0.36% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 29.4% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- The NVD has published no score for this record
- NVD CVSS vector
- No NVD score to derive
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-16.
- Red Hat severity
- No Red Hat rating. Red Hat rates the CVEs that affect its products.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2009-08-06 15:00Z17 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-07 04:24Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2009-01-16
- Assigning CNA
- mitre
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- No CWE assigned
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- 3512fb8929918a8abb154c422415e9e6f2302b10dad297e0a368e3ad56e13539
05 Affected products
06 References
- support.apple.comhttp://support.apple.com/kb/HT3757
- osvdb.org56847http://osvdb.org/56847
- secunia.com36096http://secunia.com/advisories/36096
- lists.apple.comAPPLE-SA-2009-08-05-1http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2009/Aug/msg00001.html
- www.securityfocus.com35954http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/35954
- exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.commacosx-dock-security-bypass(52421)https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/52421
- www.vupen.comADV-2009-2172http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/2172
- www.us-cert.govTA09-218Ahttp://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA09-218A.html