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.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
10.9CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:apple:mac_os_x:10.9:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
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