CVE-2004-1083

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2004-12-03 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-178

Description

Apache for Apple Mac OS X 10.2.8 and 10.3.6 restricts access to files in a case sensitive manner, but the Apple HFS+ filesystem accesses files in a case insensitive manner, which allows remote attackers to read .DS_Store files and files beginning with ".ht" using alternate capitalization.

Affected products

Apple Darwin Streaming Server: 4.1.3, 5.0.1
macOS: 10.2, 10.2.1, 10.2.2, 10.2.3, 10.2.4, 10.2.5 (+10)
Apple Mac Os X Server: 10.2, 10.2.1, 10.2.2, 10.2.3, 10.2.4, 10.2.5 (+10)
Apple Quicktime Streaming Server: 4.1.1

References

http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2004/Dec/msg00000.html
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2005//Aug/msg00001.html
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2005/Aug/msg00000.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/13362/
http://www.ciac.org/ciac/bulletins/p-049.shtml
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/11802
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/18348
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2004/Dec/msg00000.html
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2005//Aug/msg00001.html
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2005/Aug/msg00000.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/13362/
http://www.ciac.org/ciac/bulletins/p-049.shtml

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