CVE-2008-4237: Apple Mac OS X

High severity, CVSS 10.0. EPSS: 2.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Managed Client in Apple Mac OS X before 10.5.6 sometimes misidentifies a system when installing per-host configuration settings, which allows context-dependent attackers to have an unspecified impact by leveraging unintended settings, as demonstrated by the screen saver lock setting.

Affected products

• Apple Mac OS X: up to and including 10.5.5; version 10.5 only; version 10.5.1 only; version 10.5.2 only; version 10.5.3 only; version 10.5.4 only
• Apple Mac OS X Server: up to and including 10.5.5; version 10.5 only; version 10.5.1 only; version 10.5.2 only; version 10.5.3 only; version 10.5.4 only

Published 2008-12-17. Last modified 2026-06-16.