CVE-2001-1575 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting Apple Personal Web Sharing (PWS) versions 1.1, 1.5, and 1.5.5 when Web Sharing authentication is enabled. A remote attacker can trigger this by submitting an excessively long password, likely due to a buffer overflow. This vulnerability is rated Medium severity with a CVSS score of 5.0, indicating it can be exploited over the network with low attack complexity to achieve partial availability impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
1.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:apple:personal_web_sharing:1.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
1.5CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:apple:personal_web_sharing:1.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
1.5.5CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:apple:personal_web_sharing:1.5.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
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Remediation records are not available for this CVE.