CVE-2005-2503: Apple Mac OS X

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

AppKit for Mac OS X 10.3.9 and 10.4.2 allows attackers with physical access to create local accounts by forcing a particular error to occur at the login window.

Affected products

• Apple Mac OS X: version 10.3.9 only; version 10.4.2 only
• Apple Mac OS X Server: version 10.3.9 only; version 10.4.2 only

Published 2005-08-19. Last modified 2026-06-16.