Apple Mac OS X 10.4 Dashboard privileges management

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A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in Apple Mac OS X 10.4 (Operating System). Affected by this issue is an unknown function of the component Dashboard. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a privileges management vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to 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. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

Dashboard in Apple Mac OS X Tiger 10.4 allows attackers to execute arbitrary commands by overriding the behavior of system widgets via a user widget with the same bundle identifier (CFBundleIdentifier), a different vulnerability than CVE-2005-1474.

The bug was discovered 06/08/2005. The weakness was presented 06/13/2005 as confirmed advisory (CERT.org). The advisory is shared for download at kb.cert.org. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2005-1933 since 06/09/2005. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be launched remotely. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available. The current price for an exploit might be approx. USD $0-$5k (estimation calculated on 06/07/2019). The MITRE ATT&CK project declares the attack technique as T1068.

The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 5 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $5k-$25k.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at X-Force (21186). See 1616 and 1617 for similar entries.

Productinfo

Type

Operating System

Vendor

Apple

Name

Mac OS X

Version

10.4

License

commercial

Support

end of life

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

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Remote: Yes

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Sourcesinfo

Vendor: apple.com

Advisory: kb.cert.org
Status: Confirmed

CVE: CVE-2005-1933 (🔍)
X-Force: 21186
Vulnerability Center: 8586 - Dashboard in Mac OS X Tiger 10.4 Allows User Supplied Widgets to Override System Widgets, High
Secunia: 16047 - Apple Mac OS X Two Vulnerabilities, Moderately Critical
OSVDB: 17347 - CVE-2005-1933 - Apple - Mac OS X Tiger - Command Execution Issue

scip Labs: https://www.scip.ch/en/?labs.20150108
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Entryinfo

Created: 03/11/2015 11:41
Updated: 06/07/2019 06:37
Changes: 03/11/2015 11:41 (61), 06/07/2019 06:37 (3)
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