01 Record
CVE-2013-6799
Apple Mac OS X 10.9 allows local users to cause a denial of service (memory corruption or panic) by creating a hard link to a directory. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix
UnratedPUBLISHEDCNA: mitre
CNA base scoreUnratedNo CNA CVSS vector
02 Description
Apple Mac OS X 10.9 allows local users to cause a denial of service (memory corruption or panic) by creating a hard link to a directory. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix
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
- 0.73% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 53.8% 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 2026-06-17.
- 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
- 2013-11-16 11:00Z12 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-09-17 03:17Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2013-11-15
- Assigning CNA
- mitre
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- CWE-119Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory BufferClass
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- 93e22d807815df44a2284d8d547da3b26ce40582635d9bbfd6756935233c3a96
05 Affected products
VendorProductVersionsPlatforms
06 References
- cxsecurity.comhttp://cxsecurity.com/issue/WLB-2013110059
- archives.neohapsis.com20131107 Apple MacOSX 10.9 Hard Link Memory Corruptionhttp://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2013-11/0033.html
- archives.neohapsis.com20131108 Re: Apple MacOSX 10.9 Hard Link Memory Corruptionhttp://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2013-11/0051.html