CVE-2008-1036: Apple Mac OS X

Medium severity, CVSS 4.3. EPSS: 3.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Apple Mac OS X: version 10.4.11 only; version 10.5 only; version 10.5.1 only; version 10.5.2 only
• Apple Mac OS X Server: version 10.4.11 only; version 10.5 only; version 10.5.1 only; version 10.5.2 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux: version 5 only

Published 2008-06-02. Last modified 2026-06-16.