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CVE-2003-0518
The screen saver in MacOS X allows users with physical access to cause the screen saver to crash and gain access to the underlying session…
Medium4.6EPSS 0.38%
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- mitre
Description
The screen saver in MacOS X allows users with physical access to cause the screen saver to crash and gain access to the underlying session via a large number of characters in the password field, possibly triggering a buffer overflow.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium4.6 | AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.38% · top 68% of all CVEs (3 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 4.6.
Weakness
- n/a
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (3)
- 20030715 FIXED: MacOSX - crash screensaver locked with password and get thedesktop back (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- 20030704 MacOSX - crash screensaver locked with password and get the desktop back (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=120232 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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