4.3

CVE-2008-1036: apple mac_os_x Cross-site Scripting

CVSS: 4.3v2.0MediumModified
AliasesRHSA-2009:0296DEBIAN-CVE-2008-1036DSA-1762-1
Published 02-06-2008Last modified 07-08-2024
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Vulnerability summary

CVE-2008-1036 is a medium (CVSS 4.3) Cross-site Scripting vulnerability in apple mac_os_x. EPSS estimates a 3.19% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 87.9% of scored vulnerabilities.

Overall risk
18/100
0100
Low · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
4.3/10
010
Medium · v2.0 (NVD)
EPSS score
3.19%
0%100%
Low · 0.00 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedIn no KEV catalog
RansomwareNone recordedNo known use recorded
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Advisory lineage

Upstream 0 · Downstream 1 · Related 1
OPENSUSE-SU-2024:10859-1

Timeline

  1. 02-06-2008
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 07-08-2024
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

The International Components for Unicode (ICU) library in Apple Mac OS X before 10.5.3, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, and other operating systems omits some invalid character sequences during conversion of some character encodings, which might allow remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks.

CVSS metrics

1 score · 1 source · 1 version

EPSS trend

Probability

3.19%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

88%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

0.00 pp

From 3.19% on 21-09-2026

21-09-202621-10-2026
EPSS score
3.19%

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs

Not in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

Affected systems

Redhat6 products
  • enterprise_linuxEOL5
  • icu< 0:3.6-5.11.2
  • icu-debuginfo< 0:3.6-5.11.2
  • libicu< 0:3.6-5.11.2
  • libicu-devel< 0:3.6-5.11.2
Apple2 products
Debian1 product
  • icu< 4.0.1-1 | < 3.6-2etch2 | < 3.8.1-3+lenny1

3 vendors · 9 products

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