CVE-2008-2830: Apple Mac OS X

High severity, CVSS 7.2. EPSS: 0.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Open Scripting Architecture in Apple Mac OS X 10.4.11 and 10.5.4, and some other 10.4 and 10.5 versions, does not properly restrict the loading of scripting addition plugins, which allows local users to gain privileges via scripting addition commands to a privileged application, as originally demonstrated by an osascript tell command to ARDAgent.

Affected products

• Apple Mac OS X: version 10.4 only; version 10.5 only

Published 2008-06-23. Last modified 2026-06-16.