CVE-2004-0823: Apple Mac OS X

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 2.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

OpenLDAP 1.0 through 2.1.19, as used in Apple Mac OS 10.3.4 and 10.3.5 and possibly other operating systems, may allow certain authentication schemes to use hashed (crypt) passwords in the userPassword attribute as if they were plaintext passwords, which allows remote attackers to re-use hashed passwords without decrypting them.

Affected products

  • Apple Mac OS X: version 10.2.8 only; version 10.3.4 only; version 10.3.5 only
  • Apple Mac OS X Server: version 10.2.8 only; version 10.3.4 only; version 10.3.5 only
  • Openldap Openldap: version 1.0 only; version 1.0.1 only; version 1.0.2 only; version 1.0.3 only; version 1.1 only; version 1.1.1 only; …

Published 2004-09-07. Last modified 2026-06-16.