CVE-2013-0979: Apple iPhone OS

Low severity, CVSS 1.9. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

lockdownd in Lockdown in Apple iOS before 6.1.3 does not properly consider file types during the permission-setting step of a backup restoration, which allows local users to change the permissions of arbitrary files via a backup that contains a pathname with a symlink.

Affected products

• Apple iPhone OS: up to and including 6.1.2; version 1.0.0 only; version 1.0.1 only; version 1.0.2 only; version 1.1.0 only; version 1.1.1 only; …

Published 2013-03-20. Last modified 2026-06-16.