CVE-2010-0498: Apple Mac OS X

High severity, CVSS 7.2. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Directory Services in Apple Mac OS X before 10.6.3 does not properly perform authorization during processing of record names, which allows local users to gain privileges via unspecified vectors.

Affected products

• Apple Mac OS X: up to and including 10.6.2; version 10.5 only; version 10.5.0 only; version 10.5.1 only; version 10.5.2 only; version 10.5.3 only; …
• Apple Mac OS X Server: up to and including 10.6.2; version 10.5 only; version 10.5.0 only; version 10.5.1 only; version 10.5.2 only; version 10.5.3 only; …

Published 2010-03-30. Last modified 2026-06-16.