The company confirms suspicions that the vulnerability does have real dangers. The vulnerability, CVE-2017-13872, was patched by Apple yesterday. The login then results in all superuser access rights to the OS, leaving users’ data wide open for access. Apple has been quick to address another major security flaw in its macOS High Sierra 10.13.1 operating system after keen-eyed users found that anyone could gain root access to the system with a few easy steps.Īccording to reports, any person can log into a Mac device that runs High Sierra by using ‘root’ as the username and pressing the enter key several times.
