Directory Services in Apple Mac OS X before 10.8.5 Supplemental Update allows local users to bypass password-based authentication and modify arbitrary Directory Services records via unspecified vectors.

The remote host is running a version of Mac OS X 10.8 that is missing the OS X v10.8.5 Supplemental Update.  This update fixes a logic issue in verification of authentication credentials by Directory Services, which could otherwise allow a local attacker to bypass password validation.

The remote host is missing Mac OS X security update 2013-004 that fixes multiple security issues. 

The remote host is running a version of Mac OS X 10.8 that is older than 10.8.5. The newer version contains numerous security-related fixes for the following components :

  - Apache
  - Bind
  - Certificate Trust Policy
  - CoreGraphics
  - ImageIO
  - Installer
  - IPSec
  - Kernel
  - Mobile Device Management
  - OpenSSL
  - PHP
  - PostgreSQL
  - Power Management
  - QuickTime
  - Screen Lock
  - sudo

 This update also addresses an issue in which certain Unicode strings could cause applications to unexpectedly quit.

 Note that successful exploitation of the most serious issues could result in arbitrary code execution.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Type	Severity
70301	Mac OS X 10.8 < 10.8.5 Supplemental Update	Nessus	MacOS X Local Security Checks	Combined	medium
8008	Mac OS X 10.8 < 10.8.5 Multiple Vulnerabilities (Security Update 2013-004)	Nessus Network Monitor	Web Clients		critical

Detections

Analytics

CVE-2013-5163

high

Tenable Plugins

medium

critical