CVEvulnerability

CVE-2008-3438

8.1 HIGH Published 2008-08-01 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2008-08-01
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
8.1 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
7.5 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-494

Description

Apple Mac OS X does not properly verify the authenticity of updates, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to execute arbitrary code via a Trojan horse update, as demonstrated by evilgrade and DNS cache poisoning.

Affected configurations

• apple mac os x (>= 10.0.0 <= 10.5.4)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-494 Download of Code Without Integrity Check weakness

Referenced by CWE · observed example (1)

  • CWE-494 Download of Code Without Integrity Check weakness

References