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.
Published 2008-09-16 23:00:01
Updated 2025-04-09 00:30:58
Source MITRE
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Products affected by CVE-2008-3617

Threat overview for CVE-2008-3617

Top countries where our scanners detected CVE-2008-3617
Top open port discovered on systems with this issue 548
IPs affected by CVE-2008-3617 31
Threat actors abusing to this issue? Yes
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Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2008-3617

0.32%
Probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days EPSS Score History
~ 52 %
Percentile, the proportion of vulnerabilities that are scored at or less

CVSS scores for CVE-2008-3617

Base Score Base Severity CVSS Vector Exploitability Score Impact Score Score Source First Seen
5.0
MEDIUM AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
10.0
2.9
NIST

CWE ids for CVE-2008-3617

  • Assigned by: nvd@nist.gov (Primary)
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