CVE-2008-4234

high

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.

References

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/47689

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/3444

http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA08-350A.html

http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1021400

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32839

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3338

http://secunia.com/advisories/33179

http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce//2008//Dec/msg00000.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2008-12-17

Updated: 2017-08-08

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 9.3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 8.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: High