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Cryptographic Issues

CVE-2009-2808

Medium
5.4/10

Summary

Help Viewer in Apple Mac OS X before 10.6.2 does not use an HTTPS connection to retrieve Apple Help content from a web site, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to send a crafted help:runscript link, and thereby execute arbitrary code, via a spoofed response.

  • MEDIUM
  • ADJACENT_NETWORK
  • NONE
  • PARTIAL
  • PARTIAL
  • PARTIAL

CWE-310 - Cryptographic Issues

Cryptographic issues is a category of weaknesses related to the design and implementation of the confidentiality and integrity of data. If not addressed, the weaknesses in this category can lead to data quality degradation.

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published