Vulnerability in Apple Mac OS X
CVE-2008-3617
Remote Management and Screen Sharing in Apple Mac OS X 10.5 through 10.5.4, when used to set a password for a VNC viewer, displays additional input characters beyond the maximum password length, which might make it easier for attackers to guess passwords that the user believed were longer.
EPSS: 0.015 (71.5th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.
Affected products
- Apple Mac_os_x — versions 10.5, 10.5.1, 10.5.2
- Apple Mac_os_x_server — versions 10.5, 10.5.1, 10.5.2
- N/a — versions n/a
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- cve@mitre.org (Patch, vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID)
- cve@mitre.org (vendor-advisory, x_refsource_APPLE, Patch)
- cve@mitre.org (US Government Resource, x_refsource_CERT, third-party-advisory)
- cve@mitre.org (vdb-entry, x_refsource_VUPEN)
- cve@mitre.org (vdb-entry, x_refsource_XF)
- cve@mitre.org (vdb-entry, x_refsource_SECTRACK)