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CVE-2008-3630
mDNSResponder in Apple Bonjour for Windows before 1.0.5, when an application uses the Bonjour API for unicast DNS, does not choose random…
- 6.4MediumCVSS base score
- 1.6%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 24% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
mDNSResponder in Apple Bonjour for Windows before 1.0.5, when an application uses the Bonjour API for unicast DNS, does not choose random values for transaction IDs or source ports in DNS requests, which makes it easier for remote attackers to spoof DNS responses, a different vulnerability than CVE-2008-1447.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 29 days later
· 29 days later
Published
- 16 years later
· 16 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium6.4 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.6% · top 24% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.4.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
6
- 31822 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2990 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- APPLE-SA-2009-09-09 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_APPLEx_transferred
- 1020844 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- ADV-2008-2524 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- 31093 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2008-3616 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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