Apple Mac OS X up to 10.4 Terminal privileges management

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A vulnerability was found in Apple Mac OS X up to 10.4 (Operating System). It has been classified as critical. This affects some unknown processing of the component Terminal. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a privileges management vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-269. The product does not properly assign, modify, track, or check privileges for an actor, creating an unintended sphere of control for that actor. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

The x-man-page: URI handler for Apple Terminal 1.4.4 in Mac OS X 10.3.9 does not cleanse terminal escape sequences, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands.

The bug was discovered 02/21/2005. The weakness was published 05/04/2005 by David Remahl (echo) with Echo One (Website). It is possible to read the advisory at docs.info.apple.com. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2005-1342 since 04/27/2005. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. No form of authentication is needed for exploitation. Technical details are unknown but an exploit is available. The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1068 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

After even before and not, there has been an exploit disclosed. It is declared as proof-of-concept. The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 71 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $5k-$25k. The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 18189 (Mac OS X Multiple Vulnerabilities (Security Update 2005-005)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family MacOS X Local Security Checks and running in the context l. The commercial vulnerability scanner Qualys is able to test this issue with plugin 115060 (Apple Mac OS X Security Update 2005-005 Not Installed (APPLE-SA-2005-05-03)).

Upgrading eliminates this vulnerability. Applying a patch is able to eliminate this problem. The bugfix is ready for download at apple.com. The best possible mitigation is suggested to be upgrading to the latest version. A possible mitigation has been published 2 months after the disclosure of the vulnerability. Furthermore it is possible to detect and prevent this kind of attack with TippingPoint and the filter 3594.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (20395) and Tenable (18189). Similar entries are available at 1453, 1443, 1452 and 1448.

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Class: Privileges management
CWE: CWE-269 / CWE-266
ATT&CK: T1068

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Nessus ID: 18189
Nessus Name: Mac OS X Multiple Vulnerabilities (Security Update 2005-005)
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Vendor: apple.com

Advisory: docs.info.apple.com⛔
Researcher: David Remahl (echo)
Organization: Echo One
Status: Not defined

CVE: CVE-2005-1342 (🔍)
X-Force: 20395
Vulnerability Center: 8423 - Code Execution in Mac OS X 10.3.9 and Mac OS X Server 10.3.9 via x-man-path, High
SecurityFocus: 13480 - Apple Mac OS X Multiple Vulnerabilities
Secunia: 15227 - Mac OS X Security Update Fixes Multiple Vulnerabilities, Highly Critical
OSVDB: 16084 - Apple Mac OS X Terminal x-man-path URI Arbitrary Command Injection
Vupen: ADV-2005-0455

scip Labs: https://www.scip.ch/en/?labs.20150108
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Created: 05/24/2005 11:38
Updated: 07/02/2019 20:08
Changes: 05/24/2005 11:38 (98), 07/02/2019 20:08 (1)
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