CVE-2008-2308
Unspecified vulnerability in Alias Manager in Apple Mac OS X 10.5.1 and earlier on Intel platforms allows local users to gain privileges or cause a denial of service (memory corruption and application crash) by resolving an alias that contains crafted…
Does this matter?
Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.32%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.
Description
Unspecified vulnerability in Alias Manager in Apple Mac OS X 10.5.1 and earlier on Intel platforms allows local users to gain privileges or cause a denial of service (memory corruption and application crash) by resolving an alias that contains crafted AFP volume mount information.
- CVSS 2.0
- 4.6 MEDIUMAV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
- EPSS
- 0.32% probability · 25th percentile
- Public exploits
- None in Exploit-DB
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-264
- Affected
- apple/mac os x · apple/mac os x server
- Source
- cve@mitre.org
EPSS 0.3% since 26 October 2026; no change recorded yet. Points are recorded when the score first appears and whenever it moves by a percentage point or more.
References
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2008//Jun/msg00002.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/30802Vendor Advisory
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1020390
- http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2163Patch
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30018
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1981/references
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/43474
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2008//Jun/msg00002.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/30802Vendor Advisory
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1020390
- http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2163Patch
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30018
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1981/references
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/43474
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.