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CVE-2013-6799

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2013-6799 is a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting Apple Mac OS X 10.9, stemming from an incomplete fix for a previous vulnerability. A local attacker can trigger memory corruption or a system panic by creating a hard link to a directory. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 4.7, indicating a medium severity, with a low attack complexity and requiring local access, leading to a high impact on availability. While not actively exploited in the wild and not on the KEV catalog, public exploit code is available via ExploitDB, though it has garnered minimal community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
10.9CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:apple:mac_os_x:10.9:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

4.7MEDIUM

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

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
Access Vector
LOCAL
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
3.4
Impact Score
6.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.77%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
51.8%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-32754 · Apr 8, 2014
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0077 is in the 86th percentile among its peer group of 1,595 CVEs.

Social Chatter

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

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

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

Remediation

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2013-6799

CVE-2013-6799

References

archives.neohapsis.com / archives/bugtraq/2013-11/0033.html
Exploit
archives.neohapsis.com / archives/bugtraq/2013-11/0051.html
Exploit
cxsecurity.com / issue/WLB-2013110059
Exploit