CVE-2008-3434 (GCVE-0-2008-3434)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2008-08-01 14:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 09:37
VLAI
Summary
Apple iTunes before 10.5.1 does not properly verify the authenticity of updates, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to execute arbitrary code via a Trojan horse update, as demonstrated by evilgrade and DNS cache poisoning.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
mitre CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard E 29/100 over 2230 records in the last 180 days details
References
Date Public
2008-07-28 00:00
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