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CVE-2003-0518

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.6 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2003-08-18 · updated 2026-06-16

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.

Affected products

macOS: 10.2, 10.2.1, 10.2.2, 10.2.3, 10.2.4, 10.2.5 (+1)
Apple Mac Os X Server: 10.2, 10.2.1, 10.2.2, 10.2.3, 10.2.4, 10.2.5 (+1)

References

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