CVE-2003-0883 — The System Preferences capability in Mac OS X before 10.3 allows local users to access secure Preference Panes for a short period after an administrator has authenticated to the system

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The System Preferences capability in Mac OS X before 10.3 allows local users to access secure Preference Panes for a short period after an administrator has authenticated to the system

Published Oct 30, 2003

4.6

MEDIUM

CVSS 2.0

EPSS 0.30%

Description

The System Preferences capability in Mac OS X before 10.3 allows local users to access secure Preference Panes for a short period after an administrator has authenticated to the system.

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Metrics

0.30% 0.00301

Estimated probability of exploitation in the wild in the next 30 days (FIRST EPSS). As of Oct 1, 2026.

EPSS probability 0.00301

Score over time

2022–2026

EPSS v2
EPSS v3
EPSS v4
EPSS v5

Percentile over time

EPSS v2
EPSS v3
EPSS v4
EPSS v5

Table of values (9 key points)

Flat stretches are collapsed; showing up to 120 newest points.

Date	Score	Percentile	Model
Oct 1, 2026	0.30% (0.00301)	20.60th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Jun 15, 2026	0.30% (0.00302)	21.67th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Mar 17, 2025	0.06% (0.00061)	16.29th	v4 (v2025.03.14)
Dec 12, 2024	0.04% (0.00042)	5.07th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 7, 2023	0.04% (0.00042)	5.63th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 6, 2023	0.89% (0.00885)	27.89th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Sep 10, 2022	0.89% (0.00885)	26.24th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Apr 1, 2022	0.89% (0.00885)	24.24th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Feb 4, 2022	0.89% (0.00885)	10.50th	v2 (v2022.01.01)

Weaknesses (0)

No CWE recorded.

References (2)

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=61798
x_refsource_CONFIRMPatchVendor Advisory
http://lists.apple.com/mhonarc/security-announce/msg00038.html
x_refsource_CONFIRM

Link	Providers	Tags
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=61798		x_refsource_CONFIRMPatchVendor Advisory
http://lists.apple.com/mhonarc/security-announce/msg00038.html		x_refsource_CONFIRM

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources

CVE.org / MITRE

Status PUBLISHED

Assigner mitre

Published Oct 30, 2003

Updated Aug 8, 2024

Reserved Oct 24, 2003

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CISA Vulnrichment

Updated n/a

NVD

Status Modified

Modified Jun 16, 2026

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Red Hat

Severity n/a

Public date n/a

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