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.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 4.3 (v2.0)
- Severity
- MEDIUM
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-79
- EPSS score
- 3.2% (88th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2008-1047)
- Published
- June 2, 2008
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2008-1047 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- apple / mac os x
- apple / mac os x
- apple / mac os x
- apple / mac os x
- apple / mac os x server
- apple / mac os x server
- apple / mac os x server
- apple / mac os x server
- redhat / enterprise linux
Certified products that may be affected
6 FIPS 140 or Common Criteria certified products, from automated matching by sec-certs.org.
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 OpenSSH-Server Cryptographic Module - Red Hat®, Inc. - FIPS 140 1384 - historical
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 OpenSSH Client Cryptographic Module - Red Hat®, Inc. - FIPS 140 1385 - historical
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 OpenSwan Cryptographic Module - Red Hat®, Inc. - FIPS 140 1386 - historical
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Kernel Crypto API Cryptographic Module - Red Hat®, Inc. - FIPS 140 1387 - historical
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 OpenSSL Cryptographic Module - Red Hat®, Inc. - FIPS 140 1320 - historical
See all 6 in the Security Certifications Explorer.
References
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2008//May/msg00001.html(Patch, Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/30430(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/34290(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/34777(Vendor Advisory)
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1020139
- http://wiki.rpath.com/wiki/Advisories:rPSA-2009-0064
- http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1762
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-0296.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/29412
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/29488
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-747-1
- http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA08-150A.html(Patch, US Government Resource)
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1697(Vendor Advisory)
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/42717
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10824
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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