{"id":"CVE-2008-3618","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2008-3618","generatedAt":"2026-10-27T19:38:43.329Z","title":"The File Sharing pane in the Sharing preference pane in Apple Mac OS X 10.5 through 10.5.4 does not inform users that the complete contents of their own home directories are shared for their own use, which might allow attackers to leverage other…","description":"The File Sharing pane in the Sharing preference pane in Apple Mac OS X 10.5 through 10.5.4 does not inform users that the complete contents of their own home directories are shared for their own use, which might allow attackers to leverage other vulnerabilities and access files for which sharing was unintended.","published":"2008-09-16T23:00:01.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-16T22:56:10.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"cve@mitre.org","cvss":{"version":"2.0","score":9,"severity":"HIGH","vector":"AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C"},"cwe":["CWE-264"],"affected":["apple/mac os x"],"epss":{"score":0.01711,"percentile":0.77197,"date":"2026-10-26","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"high","text":"High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (1.71%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce//2008/Sep/msg00005.html","tags":["Patch"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://securitytracker.com/id?1020883","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/126787","tags":["Patch","US Government Resource"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31189","tags":["Patch"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA08-260A.html","tags":["US Government Resource"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2584","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/45175","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce//2008/Sep/msg00005.html","tags":["Patch"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://securitytracker.com/id?1020883","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/126787","tags":["Patch","US Government Resource"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31189","tags":["Patch"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA08-260A.html","tags":["US Government Resource"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2584","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/45175","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-3618","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}