PT-2008-3136 · Apple · Macos X

Don Rainwater · Published 2008-06-02 · Updated 2017-08-08 · CVE-2008-1579

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

5.0

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Mac OS X versions prior to 10.5.3

Description The issue allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information, specifically user names, by reading the error message produced when accessing a nonexistent blog.

Recommendations For versions prior to 10.5.3, update to version 10.5.3 or later to resolve the issue.

Fix

Information Disclosure

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-200

Related Identifiers

CVE-2008-1579

Affected Products

Macos X

References · 8

• http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2008//May/msg00001.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1697 · Vendor Advisory
• http://secunia.com/advisories/30430 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-1579 · Security Note
• http://securitytracker.com/id?1020143 · Patch
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/42727 · Note
• http://us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA08-150A.html · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/29412 · Note