Apple macOS up to 10.13.3 Remote Management permission

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A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in Apple macOS up to 10.13.3 (Operating System). This issue affects an unknown code block of the component Remote Management. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a permission vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-275. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

In macOS High Sierra before 10.13.3, Security Update 2018-001 Sierra, and Security Update 2018-001 El Capitan, a permissions issue existed in Remote Management. This issue was addressed through improved permission validation.

The bug was discovered 07/19/2018. The weakness was released 01/23/2018 (Website). It is possible to read the advisory at support.apple.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2018-4298 since 01/02/2018. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is needed for a successful exploitation. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available. The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1222 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

Applying the patch Security Update 2018-001 is able to eliminate this problem. A possible mitigation has been published immediately after the disclosure of the vulnerability.

Entries connected to this vulnerability are available at 112576, 112581, 112585 and 112590.

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VulDB Meta Base Score: 8.5
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Exploitinginfo

Class: Permission
CWE: CWE-275 / CWE-266
ATT&CK: T1222

Local: No
Remote: Yes

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Status: Not defined

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Recommended: Patch
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Patch: Security Update 2018-001

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01/02/2018 🔍
01/23/2018 +21 days 🔍
01/23/2018 +0 days 🔍
07/19/2018 +177 days 🔍
01/11/2019 +176 days 🔍
01/12/2019 +1 days 🔍
04/29/2020 +473 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Vendor: apple.com

Advisory: support.apple.com
Status: Not defined
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CVE: CVE-2018-4298 (🔍)
scip Labs: https://www.scip.ch/en/?labs.20180712
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Entryinfo

Created: 01/12/2019 13:05
Updated: 04/29/2020 09:47
Changes: 01/12/2019 13:05 (61), 04/29/2020 09:47 (2)
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