CVE-2011-3226: Apple Mac OS X

Medium severity, CVSS 6.8. EPSS: 2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Open Directory in Apple Mac OS X 10.7 before 10.7.2, when an LDAPv3 server is used with RFC 2307 or custom mappings, allows remote attackers to bypass the password requirement by leveraging lack of an AuthenticationAuthority attribute for a user account.

Affected products

• Apple Mac OS X: version 10.7.0 only; version 10.7.1 only
• Apple Mac OS X Server: version 10.7.0 only; version 10.7.1 only

Published 2011-10-14. Last modified 2026-06-16.