CVE-2001-1575: Apple Personal Web Sharing

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 1.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Apple Personal Web Sharing (PWS) 1.1, 1.5, and 1.5.5, when Web Sharing authentication is enabled, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a long password, possibly due to a buffer overflow.

Affected products

• Apple Personal Web Sharing: version 1.1 only; version 1.5 only; version 1.5.5 only

Published 2001-12-31. Last modified 2026-06-16.