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CVE-2008-1036

17
FAUCET Score

CVE-2008-1036 describes a cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the International Components for Unicode (ICU) library, affecting Apple Mac OS X before 10.5.3 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. The vulnerability arises from the ICU library's failure to properly handle certain invalid character sequences during character encoding conversions. With a CVSS score of 4.3 (medium severity), successful exploitation requires medium attack complexity and could lead to partial integrity impact, but no confidentiality or availability impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this vulnerability.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
10.4.11CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:apple:mac_os_x:10.4.11:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
10.5CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:apple:mac_os_x:10.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
10.5.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:apple:mac_os_x:10.5.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
10.5.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:apple:mac_os_x:10.5.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
10.4.11CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:apple:mac_os_x_server:10.4.11:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

4.3MEDIUM

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
NONE
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
8.6
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
3.19%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
86.8%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0319 is in the 81st percentile among its peer group of 19,958 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (1)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: icu-0:3.6-5.11.2
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2008-1036Moderate

ICU: Invalid character sequences omission during conversion of some character encodings (XSS attack possible)

May 28, 2008

References

lists.apple.com / archives/security-announce/2008//May/msg00001.html
PatchVendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/30430
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/34290
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/34777
Vendor Advisory
securitytracker.com / id
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/42717
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10824
wiki.rpath.com / wiki/Advisories:rPSA-2009-0064
debian.org / security/2009/dsa-1762
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2009-0296.html
securityfocus.com / bid/29412
securityfocus.com / bid/29488
ubuntu.com / usn/USN-747-1
us-cert.gov / cas/techalerts/TA08-150A.html
PatchUS Government Resource
vupen.com / english/advisories/2008/1697
Vendor Advisory