CVE-2008-0041 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Parental Controls in Apple Mac OS X 10.5 through 10.5.1 contacts www.apple.com "when a website is unblocked," which allows remote attackers to determine when a system is running Parental Controls.

No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

No CVSS v3.0

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Low

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact Partial

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact None

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00347.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

Vendors	Products
Apple Subscribe	Mac Os X Subscribe

Configuration 1 [-]

OR	cpe:2.3:o:apple:mac_os_x:10.5:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:o:apple:mac_os_x:10.5.1:::::::*

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2008-0054	Parental Controls in Apple Mac OS X 10.5 through 10.5.1 contacts www.apple.com "when a website is unblocked," which allows remote attackers to determine when a system is running Parental Controls.

Fixes

Solution

No solution given by the vendor.

Workaround

No workaround given by the vendor.

References

Link	Providers
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=307430
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2008/Feb/msg00002.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/28891
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/27736
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1019363
http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA08-043B.html
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0495/references

History

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Projects

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MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2008-02-12T19:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-07T07:32:23.811Z

Reserved: 2008-01-03T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2008-0041

Vulnrichment

No data.

NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2008-02-12T20:00:00.000

Modified: 2025-04-09T00:30:58.490

Link: CVE-2008-0041

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

No data.

Weaknesses

CWE-200

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