CVE-2010-1820: Apple Mac OS X

Medium severity, CVSS 6.8. EPSS: 1.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Apple Filing Protocol (AFP) Server in Apple Mac OS X 10.6.x through 10.6.4 does not properly handle errors, which allows remote attackers to bypass the password requirement for shared-folder access by leveraging knowledge of a valid account name.

Affected products

• Apple Mac OS X: version 10.6.0 only; version 10.6.1 only; version 10.6.2 only; version 10.6.3 only; version 10.6.4 only
• Apple Mac OS X Server: version 10.6.0 only; version 10.6.1 only; version 10.6.2 only; version 10.6.3 only; version 10.6.4 only

Published 2010-09-21. Last modified 2026-06-16.