CVE-2003-0881

Severity

75%

Complexity

99%

Confidentiality

106%

Mail in Mac OS X before 10.3, when configured to use MD5 Challenge Response, uses plaintext authentication if the CRAM-MD5 hashed login fails, which could allow remote attackers to gain privileges by sniffing the password.

Mail in Mac OS X before 10.3, when configured to use MD5 Challenge Response, uses plaintext authentication if the CRAM-MD5 hashed login fails, which could allow remote attackers to gain privileges by sniffing the password.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 7.5. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P).

Overview

First reported 21 years ago

2003-11-03 05:00:00

Last updated 16 years ago

2008-09-05 20:35:00

Affected Software

Apple Mac OS X

References

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=61798

Patch, Vendor Advisory

http://lists.apple.com/mhonarc/security-announce/msg00038.html

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