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…

Description

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.

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

0.87% · top 41% of all CVEs (3 Nov 2026)

The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.2.

Weakness

• n/a
• CWE-264 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-264 and its CVEs

Affected products

• n/a

  • affected n/a

References (8)

• ADV-2008-1905 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
• APPLE-SA-2008-07-31 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_APPLEx_transferred
• 30776 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
• apple-macosx-ardagent-command-execution(43294) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
• http://it.slashdot.org/it/08/06/18/1919224.shtml (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
• 29831 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
• 1020345 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
• APPLE-SA-2008-09-16 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_APPLEx_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-2008-2830](https://trackcve.app/badge/CVE-2008-2830.svg)](https://trackcve.app/cve/CVE-2008-2830)

Record last updated 7 Aug 2024, 09:14 UTC.