CVE-2008-4234

no score yetEPSS 4.6%

apple: no CVSS score yet. EPSS 4.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

EPSS: 4.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 91% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-264
Published: 2008-12-17
Modified: 2026-06-16
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

apple:mac_os_x
apple:mac_os_x_server

References

http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce//2008//Dec/msg00000.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/33179
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3338
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32839
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1021400

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