CVE-2013-5166: Apple Mac OS X

Medium severity, CVSS 4.9. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The Bluetooth USB host controller in Apple Mac OS X before 10.9 prematurely deletes interfaces, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (system crash) via a crafted application.

Affected products

• Apple Mac OS X: up to and including 10.8.5; version 10.8.0 only; version 10.8.1 only; version 10.8.2 only; version 10.8.3 only; version 10.8.4 only; …

Published 2013-10-24. Last modified 2026-06-16.