Apple Mac OS X 10.3.9 Local Privilege Escalation

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A vulnerability has been found in Apple Mac OS X 10.3.9 (Operating System) and classified as critical. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown code block. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a local privilege escalation vulnerability. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

MySQL Manager in Apple Mac OS X 10.3.9 and 10.4.6, when setting up a new MySQL database server, does not use the "New MySQL root password" that is provided, which causes the MySQL root password to be blank and allows local users to gain full privileges to that database.

The bug was discovered 05/11/2006. The weakness was disclosed 05/12/2006 by Ben Low (McAfee) with McAfee AVERT Labs (Website). The advisory is shared at docs.info.apple.com. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2006-1451 since 03/28/2006. The exploitation appears to be easy. An attack has to be approached locally. The exploitation doesn't need any form of authentication. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available.

It is declared as proof-of-concept. The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 21341 (Mac OS X Multiple Vulnerabilities (Security Update 2006-003)), 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.

It is possible to mitigate the problem by adding an authentication mechanism. A possible mitigation has been published even before and not after the disclosure of the vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (26420) and Tenable (21341). The entries 26531, 30221, 30220 and 30219 are pretty similar.

Productinfo

Type

Operating System

Vendor

Apple

Name

Mac OS X

Version

10.3.9

License

commercial

Support

end of life

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Class: Local Privilege Escalation
CWE: Unknown
ATT&CK: Unknown

Local: Yes
Remote: No

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Status: Proof-of-Concept

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Nessus ID: 21341
Nessus Name: Mac OS X Multiple Vulnerabilities (Security Update 2006-003)
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Sourcesinfo

Vendor: apple.com

Advisory: docs.info.apple.com⛔
Researcher: Ben Low (McAfee)
Organization: McAfee AVERT Labs
Status: Confirmed

CVE: CVE-2006-1451 (🔍)
X-Force: 26420
SecurityTracker: 1016077
Vulnerability Center: 11418 - MySQL Manager in Apple Mac OS X 10.4.6 and Earlier Blank Root Password, High
SecurityFocus: 17951 - Apple Mac OS X Security Update 2006-003 Multiple Vulnerabilities
Secunia: 20077 - Mac OS X Security Update Fixes Multiple Vulnerabilities, Highly Critical
OSVDB: 25595 - Apple Mac OS X MySQL Manager Blank root Password
Vupen: ADV-2006-1779

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

Created: 03/12/2015 12:19
Updated: 06/17/2019 19:00
Changes: 03/12/2015 12:19 (72), 06/17/2019 19:00 (10)
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