A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, has been found in Apple tvOS up to 11.2 (Digital Media Player). Affected by this issue is an unknown code of the component State Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a information disclosure vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-200. The product exposes sensitive information to an actor that is not explicitly authorized to have access to that information. Impacted is confidentiality. CVE summarizes:

In iOS before 11.3, tvOS before 11.3, watchOS before 4.3, and macOS before High Sierra 10.13.4, an information disclosure issue existed in the transition of program state. This issue was addressed with improved state handling.

The bug was discovered 03/29/2018. The weakness was presented 07/19/2018 as HT208696 (Website). The advisory is available at support.apple.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2018-4185 since 01/02/2018. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be launched remotely. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available. This vulnerability is assigned to T1592 by the MITRE ATT&CK project.

The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 112 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $0-$5k.

Upgrading to version 11.3 eliminates this vulnerability. A possible mitigation has been published immediately after the disclosure of the vulnerability.

See 115340, 115341, 115342 and 115343 for similar entries.

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