CVE-2009-2836: Apple Mac OS X

Medium severity, CVSS 6.2. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Race condition in Login Window in Apple Mac OS X 10.6.x before 10.6.2, when at least one account has a blank password, allows attackers to bypass password authentication and obtain login access to an arbitrary account via unspecified vectors.

Affected products

• Apple Mac OS X: version 10.6 only; version 10.6.1 only
• Apple Mac OS X Server: version 10.6 only; version 10.6.1 only

Published 2009-11-10. Last modified 2026-06-16.