CVE-2012-6646 describes a local privilege escalation vulnerability affecting F-Secure Anti-Virus, Safe Anywhere, and PSB Workstation Security for Mac OS X versions prior to 11500. A local attacker could exploit this flaw to disable the Mac OS X firewall through unspecified means. With a CVSS score of 2.1 (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N), this vulnerability has low severity, requiring local access and user interaction to achieve a low impact of modifying system integrity. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
Range not provided by sourceCPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:f-secure:anti-virus:-:-:-:*:*:macos:*:* | ||
Range not provided by sourceCPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:f-secure:psb_workstation_security:-:-:-:*:*:macos:*:* | ||
Range not provided by sourceCPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:f-secure:safe_anywhere:-:-:-:*:*:macos:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
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Remediation records are not available for this CVE.