CVE-2008-3434: Apple iTunes

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 2.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

  • Apple iTunes: up to and including 6.0.5; version 1.0 only; version 1.1 only; version 1.1.1 only; version 1.1.2 only; version 2.0 only; …

Published 2008-08-01. Last modified 2026-06-16.