CVEvulnerability
CVE-2009-2808
5.4 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2009-11-10
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 5.4 MEDIUM — AV:A/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-310
Description
Help Viewer in Apple Mac OS X before 10.6.2 does not use an HTTPS connection to retrieve Apple Help content from a web site, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to send a crafted help:runscript link, and thereby execute arbitrary code, via a spoofed response.
Affected configurations
• apple mac os x (<= 10.6.1)
• apple mac os x 10.0
• apple mac os x 10.0.0
• apple mac os x 10.0.1
• apple mac os x 10.0.2
• apple mac os x 10.0.3
• apple mac os x 10.0.4
• apple mac os x 10.1
• apple mac os x 10.1.0
• apple mac os x 10.1.1
• apple mac os x 10.1.2
• apple mac os x 10.1.3
• apple mac os x 10.1.4
• apple mac os x 10.1.5
• apple mac os x 10.2
• apple mac os x 10.2.0
• apple mac os x 10.2.1
• apple mac os x 10.2.2
• apple mac os x 10.2.3
• apple mac os x 10.2.4
• apple mac os x 10.2.5
• apple mac os x 10.2.6
• apple mac os x 10.2.7
• apple mac os x 10.2.8
• apple mac os x 10.3
• apple mac os x 10.3.0
• apple mac os x 10.3.1
• apple mac os x 10.3.2
• apple mac os x 10.3.3
• apple mac os x 10.3.4
• apple mac os x 10.3.5
• apple mac os x 10.3.6
• apple mac os x 10.3.7
• apple mac os x 10.3.8
• apple mac os x 10.3.9
• apple mac os x 10.4
• apple mac os x 10.4.0
• apple mac os x 10.4.1
• apple mac os x 10.4.2
• apple mac os x 10.4.3
• apple mac os x 10.4.4
• apple mac os x 10.4.5
• apple mac os x 10.4.6
• apple mac os x 10.4.7
• apple mac os x 10.4.8
• apple mac os x 10.4.9
• apple mac os x 10.4.10
• apple mac os x 10.4.11
• apple mac os x 10.5
• apple mac os x 10.5.0
• 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 10.5.5
• apple mac os x 10.5.6
• apple mac os x 10.5.7
• apple mac os x 10.5.8
• apple mac os x 10.6
• apple mac os x server (<= 10.6.1)
… and 58 more
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2009/Nov/msg00000.html lists.apple.com
- http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3937 Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/36956 Patch
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/3184 www.vupen.com
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2009/Nov/msg00000.html lists.apple.com
- http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3937 Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/36956 Patch
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/3184 www.vupen.com