01 Record
CVE-2008-3442
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
UnratedPUBLISHEDCNA: mitre
CNA base scoreUnratedNo CNA CVSS vector
02 Description
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
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 3.75% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 89.4% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- The NVD has published no score for this record
- NVD CVSS vector
- No NVD score to derive
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-16.
- Red Hat severity
- No Red Hat rating. Red Hat rates the CVEs that affect its products.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2008-08-01 14:00Z18 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-09-16 19:31Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2008-08-01
- Assigning CNA
- mitre
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- CWE-94Improper Control of Generation of Code ('Code Injection')Base
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- d40e1f7b55f4ddb4bde4ebb8ed159396d8856d2f8fed84f07f537b64077c984a
05 Affected products
VendorProductVersionsPlatforms
06 References
- securitytracker.com1020581http://securitytracker.com/id?1020581
- www.infobyte.com.arhttp://www.infobyte.com.ar/down/Francisco%20Amato%20-%20evilgrade%20-%20ENG.pdf
- www.infobyte.com.arhttp://www.infobyte.com.ar/down/isr-evilgrade-1.0.0.tar.gz
- archives.neohapsis.com20080728 Tool release: [evilgrade] - Using DNS cache poisoning to exploit poor update implementationshttp://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2008-07/0250.html