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CVE-2004-1081

14
FAUCET Score

CVE-2004-1081 describes a vulnerability in Apple's AppKit for Mac OS X 10.2.8 and 10.3.6, allowing local users to read keyboard input from other applications within the same window session due to improper access restrictions on secure text input fields. This is a low-severity vulnerability with a CVSS score of 2.1 (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N), indicating local access is required and it only impacts confidentiality. There is no evidence of active exploitation, no known public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), and it is not listed in CISA's KEV catalog, despite having a relatively high number of community mentions.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
4.1.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:apple:darwin_streaming_server:4.1.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
5.0.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:apple:darwin_streaming_server:5.0.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
4.1.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:apple:quicktime_streaming_server:4.1.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
10.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:apple:mac_os_x:10.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
10.2.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:apple:mac_os_x:10.2.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

2.1LOW

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
NONE
Access Vector
LOCAL
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.34%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
26.3%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0034 is in the 20th percentile among its peer group of 2,096 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.6 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

lists.apple.com / archives/security-announce/2004/Dec/msg00000.html
PatchVendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/13362
PatchVendor Advisory
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/18350
ciac.org / ciac/bulletins/p-049.shtml
PatchVendor Advisory
securityfocus.com / bid/11802
PatchVendor Advisory