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CVE-2008-4234

Incomplete blacklist vulnerability in the Quarantine feature in CoreTypes in Apple Mac OS X 10.5 before 10.5.6 allows us

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.

HIGH · CVSS 9.3 EPSS 0.04966
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  • CVSS base score ≥ 7.0
Sigma rules0 YARA rules0
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Affected Products & Versions

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apple mac os x<= 10.5.5
apple mac os xall versions
apple mac os x server<= 10.5.5
apple mac os x serverall versions
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Scoring & Timeline

9.3
HIGH · CVSS v2 (legacy) · cve@mitre.org
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This CVE predates CVSS v3; the legacy v2 score is shown so triage still has a severity to work with.
v2 Vector
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Published to NVD17 Dec 2008 · 01:30 AM
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References & Sources

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Source URLs (vendor pages, mailing lists, write-ups). Exploit/PoC links are in their own section above to avoid duplication.
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce//2008//Dec/msg00000.htmlVendor Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/33179Vendor Advisory
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3338Vendor Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32839
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1021400
http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA08-350A.htmlUS Government Resource
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