CVE-2011-3462: Apple Mac OS X

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 1.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Time Machine in Apple Mac OS X before 10.7.3 does not verify the unique identifier of its remote AFP volume or Time Capsule, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information contained in new backups by spoofing this storage object, a different vulnerability than CVE-2010-1803.

Affected products

• Apple Mac OS X: up to and including 10.7.2; version 10.7.0 only; version 10.7.1 only
• Apple Mac OS X Server: up to and including 10.7.2; version 10.7.0 only; version 10.7.1 only

Published 2012-02-02. Last modified 2026-06-16.