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CVE-2008-3617

N/A

Description

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.

CVE Details

CVSS v3.1 ScoreN/A

Published9/16/2008

Last Modified4/23/2026

Sourcenvd

Honeypot Sightings0

Affected Products

apple:mac_os_xapple:mac_os_x_server

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-255

References

http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce//2008/Sep/msg00005.html(cve@mitre.org)

http://securitytracker.com/id?1020882(cve@mitre.org)

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31189(cve@mitre.org)

http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA08-260A.html(cve@mitre.org)

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2584(cve@mitre.org)

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/45174(cve@mitre.org)

http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce//2008/Sep/msg00005.html(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://securitytracker.com/id?1020882(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31189(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA08-260A.html(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2584(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/45174(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

IOC Correlations

No correlations recorded

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