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CVE-2010-0522

26
FAUCET Score

CVE-2010-0522 describes a privilege escalation vulnerability in Apple Mac OS X Server 10.5.8's Server Admin component. It allows remote authenticated users, who were previously members of the admin group, to regain administrative access via screen sharing due to improper privilege determination. With a CVSS score of 9.0, this vulnerability is considered critical, enabling full compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability with low attack complexity. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this decade-old flaw.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
10.5.8CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:apple:mac_os_x_server:10.5.8:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

9.0HIGH

AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C

Confidentiality Impact
COMPLETE
Integrity Impact
COMPLETE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
SINGLE
Exploitability Score
8.0
Impact Score
10.0
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
2.04%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
79.1%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0204 is in the 77th percentile among its peer group of 17,844 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.3 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (1)

applepatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch

References

lists.apple.com / archives/security-announce/2010//Mar/msg00001.html
Vendor Advisory
support.apple.com / kb/HT4077
PatchVendor Advisory