CVE-2008-4214

Severity

46%

Complexity

39%

Confidentiality

106%

Unspecified vulnerability in Script Editor in Mac OS X 10.4.11 and 10.5.5 allows local users to cause the scripting dictionary to be written to arbitrary locations, related to an "insecure file operation" on temporary files.

Unspecified vulnerability in Script Editor in Mac OS X 10.4.11 and 10.5.5 allows local users to cause the scripting dictionary to be written to arbitrary locations, related to an "insecure file operation" on temporary files.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 4.6. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P).

Overview

Type

Apple Mac OS X

First reported 16 years ago

2008-10-10 10:30:00

Last updated 7 years ago

2017-08-08 01:32:00

Affected Software

Apple Mac OS X 10.4.11

10.4.11

Apple Mac OS X 10.5.5

10.5.5

Apple Mac OS X Server 10.4.11

10.4.11

Apple Mac OS X Server 10.5.5

10.5.5

References

APPLE-SA-2008-10-09

32222

Vendor Advisory

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3216

Vendor Advisory

31681

Patch

31716

Patch

1021029

ADV-2008-2780

macosx-scripteditor-symlink(45786)

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