CVEvulnerability
CVE-2008-4234
9.3 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2008-12-17
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 9.3 HIGH — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-264
Description
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.
Affected configurations
• apple mac os x (<= 10.5.5)
• apple mac os x 10.5
• apple mac os x 10.5.1
• apple mac os x 10.5.2
• apple mac os x 10.5.3
• apple mac os x 10.5.4
• apple mac os x server (<= 10.5.5)
• apple mac os x server 10.5
• apple mac os x server 10.5.1
• apple mac os x server 10.5.2
• apple mac os x server 10.5.3
• apple mac os x server 10.5.4
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce//2008//Dec/msg00000.html Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/33179 Vendor Advisory
- http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3338 Vendor Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32839 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1021400 www.securitytracker.com
- http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA08-350A.html US Government Resource
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/3444 www.vupen.com
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/47689 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce//2008//Dec/msg00000.html Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/33179 Vendor Advisory
- http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3338 Vendor Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32839 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1021400 www.securitytracker.com
- http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA08-350A.html US Government Resource
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/3444 www.vupen.com
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/47689 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com