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medium 4.3

CVE-2008-1036 json

The International Components for Unicode (ICU) library in Apple Mac OS X before 10.5.3, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, and other operating sys…

published 2008-06-02 18 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2008-1047

cvss
4.3
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
3.2%
EPSS 3.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 88%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

The International Components for Unicode (ICU) library in Apple Mac OS X before 10.5.3, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, and other operating systems omits some invalid character sequences during conversion of some character encodings, which might allow remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks.

Patch / fix

  • icu Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 4.0.1-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2008-1036

  • icu RHEL 5 3.6-5.11.2
  • libicu RHEL 5 3.6-5.11.2

red hat advisories RHSA-2009:0296

  • icu openSUSE Tumbleweed 69.1-2.3

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2024:10859-1

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2008-1036 updated

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

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server) icu 3.6-5.11.2, libicu 3.6-5.11.2 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 5 client) icu 3.6-5.11.2, libicu 3.6-5.11.2 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Workstation (v. 5 client) icu 3.6-5.11.2, libicu 3.6-5.11.2
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2009:0296

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

3.19% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 88% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 4.3 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation

References

Sources

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