CVE-2008-3434

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2008-08-01 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-94

Description

Apple iTunes before 10.5.1 does not properly verify the authenticity of updates, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to execute arbitrary code via a Trojan horse update, as demonstrated by evilgrade and DNS cache poisoning.

Affected products

Apple iTunes for Windows: through 6.0.5; 1.0, 1.1, 1.1.1, 1.1.2, 2.0, 2.0.1 (+23)

References

http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2008-07/0250.html
http://lists.apple.com/archives/Security-announce/2011/Nov/msg00003.html
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5030
http://www.infobyte.com.ar/down/Francisco%20Amato%20-%20evilgrade%20-%20ENG.pdf
http://www.infobyte.com.ar/down/isr-evilgrade-1.0.0.tar.gz
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A17136
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2008-07/0250.html
http://lists.apple.com/archives/Security-announce/2011/Nov/msg00003.html
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5030
http://www.infobyte.com.ar/down/Francisco%20Amato%20-%20evilgrade%20-%20ENG.pdf
http://www.infobyte.com.ar/down/isr-evilgrade-1.0.0.tar.gz
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A17136

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