CVE-2008-2830

Severity: high (CVSS 7.2 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2008-06-23 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-264

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.

Affected products

macOS: 10.4, 10.5

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
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1020345
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1905/references
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/43294
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

Get alerted when CVE-2008-2830 or the next vulnerability affects your stack