Description
Power Management in Apple Mac OS X before 10.8.5 does not properly perform locking upon occurrences of a power assertion, which allows physically proximate attackers to bypass intended access restrictions by visiting an unattended workstation on which a locking failure had prevented the startup of the screen saver.
References
- APPLE-SA-2013-09-12-1 vendor-advisory
- http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5880