CVE-2008-3442

2022-10-0316:13:41

mitre

www.cve.org

winzip

update verification

code execution

man-in-the-middle

evilgrade

dns cache poisoning

7.4 High

AI Score

Confidence

High

0.004 Low

EPSS

Percentile

73.0%

JSON

WinZip before 11.0 does not properly verify the authenticity of updates, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to execute arbitrary code via a Trojan horse update, as demonstrated by evilgrade and DNS cache poisoning.

References

archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2008-07/0250.html

securitytracker.com/id?1020581

www.infobyte.com.ar/down/Francisco%20Amato%20-%20evilgrade%20-%20ENG.pdf

www.infobyte.com.ar/down/isr-evilgrade-1.0.0.tar.gz