Apple Mac OS X 10.4 unknown vulnerability

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A vulnerability was found in Apple Mac OS X 10.4 (Operating System) and classified as problematic. Impacted is integrity. The summary by CVE is:

User interface inconsistency in Workgroup Manager in Apple Mac OS X 10.4 through 10.4.7 appears to allow administrators to change the authentication type from crypt to ShadowHash passwords for accounts in a NetInfo parent, when such an operation is not actually supported, which could result in less secure password management than intended.

The bug was discovered 09/29/2006. The weakness was disclosed 10/03/2006 by Chris Pepper (Patrick) with Matasano Security (Website). It is possible to read the advisory at docs.info.apple.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2006-4399 since 08/28/2006. The exploitation is known to be easy. Attacking locally is a requirement. No form of authentication is needed for a successful exploitation. Technical details are unknown but a public exploit is available.

The exploit is available at securityfocus.com. It is declared as proof-of-concept. We expect the 0-day to have been worth approximately $25k-$100k. The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 22476 (Mac OS X 10.4.x < 10.4.8 Multiple Vulnerabilities), 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 115422 (Apple Mac OS X 10.4.8 and Security Update 2006-006 Not Installed (APPLE-SA-2006-09-29)).

It is possible to mitigate the problem by adding an authentication mechanism. A possible mitigation has been published 2 months after the disclosure of the vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (29302) and Tenable (22476). The entries 31584, 32566, 32565 and 32564 are pretty similar.

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Nessus ID: 22476
Nessus Name: Mac OS X 10.4.x < 10.4.8 Multiple Vulnerabilities
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Vendor: apple.com

Advisory: docs.info.apple.com⛔
Researcher: Chris Pepper (Patrick)
Organization: Matasano Security
Status: Confirmed

CVE: CVE-2006-4399 (🔍)
X-Force: 29302
SecurityTracker: 1016958
Vulnerability Center: 12812 - Apple Mac OS X Workgroup Manager Falsely Appears to Allow Changing of the Authentication Type, Low
SecurityFocus: 20271 - Apple Mac OS X Pre 10.4.8 Multiple Security Vulnerabilities
Secunia: 22187 - Mac OS X Security Update Fixes Multiple Vulnerabilities, Highly Critical
OSVDB: 29276 - Apple Mac OS X Server Workgroup Manager NetInfo Parent Account Password Encryption Weakness
Vupen: ADV-2006-3852

scip Labs: https://www.scip.ch/en/?labs.20150108
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Created: 03/12/2015 15:51
Updated: 07/08/2019 22:15
Changes: 03/12/2015 15:51 (79), 07/08/2019 22:15 (10)
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