Incomplete blacklist vulnerability in CoreTypes in Apple Mac OS X before 10.5.3 allows user-assisted remote attackers to execute arbitrary…

Description

Incomplete blacklist vulnerability in CoreTypes in Apple Mac OS X before 10.5.3 allows user-assisted remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via an (1) Automator, (2) Help, (3) Safari, or (4) Terminal content type for a downloadable object, which does not trigger a "potentially unsafe" warning message in (a) the Download Validation feature in Mac OS X 10.4 or (b) the Quarantine feature in Mac OS X 10.5.

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

4.2% · top 9.0% of all CVEs (4 Nov 2026)

The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.8.

Weakness

• n/a

Affected products

• n/a

  • affected n/a

References (8)

• 29481 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
• TA08-150A (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERTx_transferred
• 30430 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
• APPLE-SA-2008-05-28 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_APPLEx_transferred
• 1020137 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
• ADV-2008-1697 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
• macosx-coretypes-weak-security(42711) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
• 29412 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred

Sources

The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.

• CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
• CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
• NVD (opens in a new tab)
• FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
• OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
• GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
• CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)

Badge for a README or a ticket

[![CVE-2008-1032](https://trackcve.app/badge/CVE-2008-1032.svg)](https://trackcve.app/cve/CVE-2008-1032)

Record last updated 7 Aug 2024, 08:08 UTC.