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.
Published: 2008-12-17
Score: 9.3 Critical
EPSS: 5.0% Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2008-4217 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.
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Apple Mac Os X Mac Os X Server
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-07T10:08:34.999Z

Reserved: 2008-09-24T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2008-4234

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Status : Modified

Published: 2008-12-17T01:30:00.467

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

Link: CVE-2008-4234

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