CVE-2005-1473 — SecurityAgent in Apple Mac OS X 10.4.1 allows attackers with physical access to bypass the locked screensaver and launch background applications by opening a URL from a text input field

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SecurityAgent in Apple Mac OS X 10.4.1 allows attackers with physical access to bypass the locked screensaver and launch background applications by opening a URL from a text input field

Published Jun 9, 2005

4.6

MEDIUM

CVSS 2.0

EPSS 0.34%

Description

SecurityAgent in Apple Mac OS X 10.4.1 allows attackers with physical access to bypass the locked screensaver and launch background applications by opening a URL from a text input field.

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Metrics

0.34% 0.00344

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

EPSS probability 0.00344

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 (12 key points)

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

Date	Score	Percentile	Model
Oct 1, 2026	0.34% (0.00344)	25.53th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Jun 15, 2026	0.34% (0.00344)	26.05th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Mar 17, 2025	0.06% (0.00059)	15.74th	v4 (v2025.03.14)
Dec 12, 2024	0.07% (0.00065)	30.66th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
May 1, 2024	0.06% (0.00060)	24.67th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 15, 2024	0.06% (0.00058)	22.63th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Feb 8, 2024	0.05% (0.00053)	18.61th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 7, 2023	0.07% (0.00075)	30.43th	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 (1)

http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2005/May/msg00004.html
vendor-advisoryx_refsource_APPLEPatch

Link	Providers	Tags
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2005/May/msg00004.html		vendor-advisoryx_refsource_APPLEPatch

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources

CVE.org / MITRE

Status PUBLISHED

Assigner mitre

Published Jun 9, 2005

Updated Sep 16, 2024

Reserved May 7, 2005

Link CVE-2005-1473

CISA Vulnrichment

Updated n/a

NVD

Status Modified

Modified Jun 16, 2026

Link CVE-2005-1473

Red Hat

Severity n/a

Public date n/a

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