CVE-2001-1575 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

Apple Personal Web Sharing (PWS) 1.1, 1.5, and 1.5.5, when Web Sharing authentication is enabled, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a long password, possibly due to a buffer overflow.

Published: 2005-08-05

Score: 5.0 Medium

EPSS: < 1% Very Low

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions

n/a

n/a

affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

OR	cpe:2.3:a:apple:personal_web_sharing:1.1:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:a:apple:personal_web_sharing:1.5:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:a:apple:personal_web_sharing:1.5.5:::::::*

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Remediation

No vendor fix or workaround currently provided.

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Tracking

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2001-1552	Apple Personal Web Sharing (PWS) 1.1, 1.5, and 1.5.5, when Web Sharing authentication is enabled, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a long password, possibly due to a buffer overflow.

No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

No CVSS v3.0

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Low

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact Partial

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00926.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

Link	Providers
http://cert.uni-stuttgart.de/archive/bugtraq/2001/06/msg00409.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/2945
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/6759

History

No history.

Subscriptions

Apple Personal Web Sharing

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2005-08-05T04:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2024-08-08T04:58:11.407Z

Reserved: 2005-08-05T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2001-1575

Vulnrichment

No data.

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2001-12-31T05:00:00.000

Modified: 2026-04-16T00:27:16.627

Link: CVE-2001-1575

Redhat

No data.

OpenCVE Enrichment

No data.

Weaknesses

NVD-CWE-Other

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