XSS in Apple Mac OS X
CVE-2008-1036
The International Components for Unicode (ICU) library in Apple Mac OS X before 10.5.3, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, and other operating systems omits some invalid character sequences during conversion of some character encodings, which might allow remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks.
Vulnerability class: XSS (Cross-Site Scripting)
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 4.3 (Medium). Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.032 (87.7th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 88th percentile — 87.7% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.032 · newest: 0.032 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Apple Mac OS X — versions 10.4.11, 10.5, 10.5.1
- Apple Mac OS X Server — versions 10.4.11, 10.5, 10.5.1
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux — versions 5
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-0296.html (vendor-advisory)
- exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/42717 (vdb-entry)
- secunia.com/advisories/34777 (Vendor Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/29488 (vdb-entry)
- securitytracker.com/id (vdb-entry)
- www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA08-150A.html (US Government Resource, Patch, third-party-advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/30430 (Vendor Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2008//May/msg00001.html (vendor-advisory, Patch, Vendor Advisory)
- www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1762 (vendor-advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/34290 (Vendor Advisory, third-party-advisory)