{"id":"CVE-2003-0518","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2003-0518","generatedAt":"2026-10-27T17:30:27.538Z","title":"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.","description":"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.","published":"2003-08-18T04:00:00.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-16T22:02:21.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"cve@mitre.org","cvss":{"version":"2.0","score":4.6,"severity":"MEDIUM","vector":"AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P"},"cwe":[],"affected":["apple/mac os x","apple/mac os x server"],"epss":{"score":0.00383,"percentile":0.32103,"date":"2026-10-26","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"low","text":"Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.38%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2003-07/0034.html","tags":["Vendor Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2003-07/0187.html","tags":["Patch"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=120232","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2003-07/0034.html","tags":["Vendor Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2003-07/0187.html","tags":["Patch"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=120232","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2003-0518","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}