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CVE-2005-2520

12
FAUCET Score

CVE-2005-2520 describes a vulnerability in the password assistant of Mac OS X versions 10.4 through 10.4.2. When creating multiple user accounts from the same process, the assistant failed to clear the suggested password list, potentially exposing recently used passwords to an attacker with local access. This vulnerability has a low severity CVSS score of 2.1, indicating a low attack complexity and requiring local access to compromise confidentiality. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
10.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:apple:mac_os_x:10.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
10.4.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:apple:mac_os_x:10.4.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
10.4.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:apple:mac_os_x:10.4.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
0.39%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
31.9%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0039 is in the 53rd 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/2005/Aug/msg00000.html
PatchVendor Advisory
lists.apple.com / archives/security-announce/2005//Aug/msg00001.html
PatchVendor Advisory
securitytracker.com / id