CVE-2004-1083: Apple Darwin Streaming Server

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 1.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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: version 4.1.3 only; version 5.0.1 only
• 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; …
• Apple Quicktime Streaming Server: version 4.1.1 only

Published 2004-12-03. Last modified 2026-06-16.