CVE-2008-3438

2008-08-0114:00:00

mitre

www.cve.org

apple mac os x

update authenticity verification

vulnerability

evilgrade

dns cache poisoning

AI Score

7.9

Confidence

High

EPSS

0.002

Percentile

61.8%

JSON

Apple Mac OS X does not properly verify the authenticity of updates, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to execute arbitrary code via a Trojan horse update, as demonstrated by evilgrade and DNS cache poisoning.

References

archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2008-07/0250.html

www.infobyte.com.ar/down/Francisco%20Amato%20-%20evilgrade%20-%20ENG.pdf

www.infobyte.com.ar/down/isr-evilgrade-1.0.0.tar.gz