CVE-2008-4234

Severity

93%

Complexity

86%

Confidentiality

165%

Incomplete blacklist vulnerability in the Quarantine feature in CoreTypes in Apple Mac OS X 10.5 before 10.5.6 allows user-assisted remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via an executable file with the content type indicating no application association for the file, which does not trigger a "potentially unsafe" warning message.

Incomplete blacklist vulnerability in the Quarantine feature in CoreTypes in Apple Mac OS X 10.5 before 10.5.6 allows user-assisted remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via an executable file with the content type indicating no application association for the file, which does not trigger a "potentially unsafe" warning message.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 9.3. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: medium. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C).

Overview

First reported 16 years ago

2008-12-17 01:30:00

Last updated 7 years ago

2017-08-08 01:32:00

Affected Software

Apple Mac OS X 10.5

10.5

Apple Mac OS X 10.5.1

10.5.1

Apple Mac OS X 10.5.2

10.5.2

Apple Mac OS X 10.5.3

10.5.3

Apple Mac OS X 10.5.4

10.5.4

Apple Mac OS X

Apple Mac OS X Server 10.5

10.5

Apple Mac OS X Server 10.5.1

10.5.1

Apple Mac OS X Server 10.5.2

10.5.2

Apple Mac OS X Server 10.5.3

10.5.3

Apple Mac OS X Server 10.5.4

10.5.4

Apple Mac OS X Server

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