CVE-2003-0518: Apple Mac OS X

Medium severity, CVSS 4.6. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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

• Apple Mac OS X: version 10.2 only; version 10.2.1 only; version 10.2.2 only; version 10.2.3 only; version 10.2.4 only; version 10.2.5 only; …
• Apple Mac OS X Server: version 10.2 only; version 10.2.1 only; version 10.2.2 only; version 10.2.3 only; version 10.2.4 only; version 10.2.5 only; …

Published 2003-08-18. Last modified 2026-06-16.