| Vulnerability Name: | CVE-2008-3617 (CCN-45174) | ||||||||
| Assigned: | 2008-09-15 | ||||||||
| Published: | 2008-09-15 | ||||||||
| Updated: | 2017-08-08 | ||||||||
| Summary: | 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. | ||||||||
| CVSS v3 Severity: | 5.3 Medium (CCN CVSS v3.1 Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N)
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| CVSS v2 Severity: | 5.0 Medium (CVSS v2 Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N) 3.7 Low (Temporal CVSS v2 Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N/E:U/RL:OF/RC:C)
3.7 Low (CCN Temporal CVSS v2 Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N/E:U/RL:OF/RC:C)
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| Vulnerability Type: | CWE-255 | ||||||||
| Vulnerability Consequences: | Other | ||||||||
| References: | Source: MITRE Type: CNA CVE-2008-3617 Source: APPLE Type: Patch APPLE-SA-2008-09-15 Source: CCN Type: SA31882 Apple Mac OS X Security Update Fixes Multiple Vulnerabilities Source: CCN Type: SECTRACK ID: 1020882 Mac OS X System Preferences VNC Password Display May Mislead Users About the Maximum Password Length Source: SECTRACK Type: UNKNOWN 1020882 Source: CCN Type: Apple Web site About the security content of Mac OS X v10.5.5 and Security Update 2008-006 Source: CCN Type: OSVDB ID: 48235 Apple Mac OS X Remote Management and Screen Sharing VNC Viewer Password Length Viewing Weakness Source: BID Type: Patch 31189 Source: CCN Type: BID-31189 Apple Mac OS X 2008-006 Multiple Security Vulnerabilities Source: CERT Type: US Government Resource TA08-260A Source: VUPEN Type: UNKNOWN ADV-2008-2584 Source: XF Type: UNKNOWN macos-vncviewer-weak-security(45174) Source: XF Type: UNKNOWN macos-vncviewer-weak-security(45174) | ||||||||
| Vulnerable Configuration: | Configuration 1: Configuration CCN 1:  Denotes that component is vulnerable | ||||||||
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