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CVE-2013-0981

18
FAUCET Score

CVE-2013-0981 describes a privilege escalation vulnerability in the IOUSBDeviceFamily driver within the kernel's USB implementation in Apple iOS before 6.1.3 and Apple TV before 5.2.1. This flaw allowed local users to gain elevated privileges by manipulating pipe object pointers that originated in userspace. With a CVSS score of 7.2, it indicates high severity due to local access, low attack complexity, and complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While the vulnerability is not listed in CISA's KEV catalog and has no known public exploit code in Metasploit, Nuclei, or ExploitDB, it did receive some community discussion and media coverage at the time of its disclosure.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 6.1.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:apple:iphone_os:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.0.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:apple:iphone_os:1.0.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.0.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:apple:iphone_os:1.0.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.0.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:apple:iphone_os:1.0.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.1.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:apple:iphone_os:1.1.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

7.2HIGH

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

Confidentiality Impact
COMPLETE
Integrity Impact
COMPLETE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
Access Vector
LOCAL
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
10.0
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.36%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
28.7%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0036 is in the 32nd percentile among its peer group of 3,241 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.5 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

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

Remediation

Vendor Patches (1)

applevendor investigatingvia nvd_reference
View patch

References

lists.apple.com / archives/security-announce/2013/Mar/msg00004.html
Vendor Advisory
lists.apple.com / archives/security-announce/2013/Mar/msg00005.html
Vendor Advisory
support.apple.com / kb/HT5702
Vendor Advisory
support.apple.com / kb/HT5704
Vendor Advisory