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CVE-2008-3438

• Severity: high (CVSS 8.1 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.8% 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-494

Description

Apple Mac OS X 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

• macOS: from 10.0.0 through 10.5.4

References

• http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2008-07/0250.html
• 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
• http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2008-07/0250.html
• 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

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