CVE-2009-2808: Apple Mac OS X

Medium severity, CVSS 5.4. EPSS: 0.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Help Viewer in Apple Mac OS X before 10.6.2 does not use an HTTPS connection to retrieve Apple Help content from a web site, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to send a crafted help:runscript link, and thereby execute arbitrary code, via a spoofed response.

Affected products

• Apple Mac OS X: up to and including 10.6.1; version 10.0 only; version 10.0.0 only; version 10.0.1 only; version 10.0.2 only; version 10.0.3 only; …
• Apple Mac OS X Server: up to and including 10.6.1; version 10.0 only; version 10.0.0 only; version 10.0.1 only; version 10.0.2 only; version 10.0.3 only; …

Published 2009-11-10. Last modified 2026-06-16.