Medium 4.6Published Aug 18, 2003

CVE-2003-0518The 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, poss…

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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.

CVSS: 4.6 MEDIUM (v2.0, NVD)AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Weakness (CWE): Not given
Known exploited: Not in CISA's KEV catalog
EPSS (exploitation in the next 30 days): Not loaded for this CVE
Assigned by: Not given
NVD analysis: Modified
Record last updated: Jun 16, 2026
First seen by InfoSec Signals: Nov 1, 2026

Affected products

Affected products

apple mac_os_x apple:mac_os_x	10.2; 10.2.1; 10.2.2; 10.2.3; 10.2.4; 10.2.5; 10.2.6	NVD
apple mac_os_x_server apple:mac_os_x_server	10.2; 10.2.1; 10.2.2; 10.2.3; 10.2.4; 10.2.5; 10.2.6	NVD

References

References

http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2003-07/0034.html	vendor-advisory
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2003-07/0187.html	patch
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=120232

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