CVE-2008-0041 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

Parental Controls in Apple Mac OS X 10.5 through 10.5.1 contacts www.apple.com "when a website is unblocked," which allows remote attackers to determine when a system is running Parental Controls.

Published: 2008-02-12

Score: 5.0 Medium

EPSS: < 1% Very Low

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions

n/a

n/a

affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

OR	cpe:2.3:o:apple:mac_os_x:10.5:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:o:apple:mac_os_x:10.5.1:::::::*

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Remediation

No vendor fix or workaround currently provided.

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Tracking

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2008-0054	Parental Controls in Apple Mac OS X 10.5 through 10.5.1 contacts www.apple.com "when a website is unblocked," which allows remote attackers to determine when a system is running Parental Controls.

No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

No CVSS v3.0

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Low

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact Partial

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact None

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00371.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

Link	Providers
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=307430
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2008/Feb/msg00002.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/28891
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/27736
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1019363
http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA08-043B.html
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0495/references

History

No history.

Subscriptions

Apple Mac Os X

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2008-02-12T19:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2024-08-07T07:32:23.811Z

Reserved: 2008-01-03T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2008-0041

Vulnrichment

No data.

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2008-02-12T20:00:00.000

Modified: 2026-04-23T00:35:47.467

Link: CVE-2008-0041

Redhat

No data.

OpenCVE Enrichment

No data.

Weaknesses

CWE-200

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