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.
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Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: apple

Published: 2017-11-29T17:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-05T19:13:41.072Z

Reserved: 2017-08-30T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2017-13872

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2017-11-29T17:29:00.217

Modified: 2024-11-21T03:11:50.080

Link: CVE-2017-13872

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