CVE-2008-1036

Apple Mac OS X - Cross-Site Scripting via ICU Character Encoding Conversion

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

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.

References (15)

Core 15
Core References
Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
http://wiki.rpath.com/wiki/Advisories:rPSA-2009-0064
Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_redhat
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-0296.html
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_xf
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/42717
Vendor Advisory third-party-advisory x_refsource_secunia
http://secunia.com/advisories/34777
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_bid
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/29488
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_sectrack
http://securitytracker.com/id?1020139
Patch, US Government Resource third-party-advisory x_refsource_cert
http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA08-150A.html
Vendor Advisory third-party-advisory x_refsource_secunia
http://secunia.com/advisories/30430
Patch, Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_apple
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2008//May/msg00001.html
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_debian
http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1762
Vendor Advisory third-party-advisory x_refsource_secunia
http://secunia.com/advisories/34290
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry signature x_refsource_oval
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10824
Vendor Advisory vdb-entry x_refsource_vupen
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1697
Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_ubuntu
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-747-1
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_bid
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/29412

Scores

EPSS 0.0319
EPSS Percentile 86.8%

Details

CWE
CWE-79
Status published
Products (9)
apple/mac_os_x 10.4.11
apple/mac_os_x 10.5
apple/mac_os_x 10.5.1
apple/mac_os_x 10.5.2
apple/mac_os_x_server 10.4.11
apple/mac_os_x_server 10.5
apple/mac_os_x_server 10.5.1
apple/mac_os_x_server 10.5.2
redhat/enterprise_linux 5
Published Jun 02, 2008
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026