CVE-2008-2830
HIGH · CVSS 7.2EPSS 0.9%EU EUVD
Open Scripting Architecture in Apple Mac OS X 10.4.11 and 10.5.4, and some other 10.4 and 10.5 versions, does not properly restrict the loading of scripting addition plugins, which allows local users to gain privileges via scripting addition commands to a privileged application, as originally demonstrated by an osascript tell command to ARDAgent.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 7.2 (v2.0)
- Severity
- HIGH
- CVSS vector
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-264
- EPSS score
- 0.9% (59th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2008-2823)
- Published
- June 23, 2008
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2008-2823 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
References
- http://it.slashdot.org/it/08/06/18/1919224.shtml
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce//2008//Sep/msg00006.html
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce//2008/Jul/msg00003.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/30776
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/29831(Exploit)
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1020345
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1905/references
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/43294
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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