CVE-2008-3617: Apple Mac OS X

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 1.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Remote Management and Screen Sharing in Apple Mac OS X 10.5 through 10.5.4, when used to set a password for a VNC viewer, displays additional input characters beyond the maximum password length, which might make it easier for attackers to guess passwords that the user believed were longer.

Affected products

• Apple Mac OS X: version 10.5 only; version 10.5.1 only; version 10.5.2 only; version 10.5.3 only; version 10.5.4 only
• Apple Mac OS X Server: version 10.5 only; version 10.5.1 only; version 10.5.2 only; version 10.5.3 only; version 10.5.4 only

Published 2008-09-16. Last modified 2026-06-16.