CVE-2008-2830 (GCVE-0-2008-2830)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2008-06-23 20:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 09:14
VLAI
Summary
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.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1905… vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPEN
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_APPLE
http://secunia.com/advisories/30776 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilit… vdb-entryx_refsource_XF
http://it.slashdot.org/it/08/06/18/1919224.shtml x_refsource_MISC
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/29831 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1020345 vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_APPLE
Date Public
2008-06-18 00:00
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