Apple Safari up to 10.5.2 Certificates information disclosure

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A vulnerability has been found in Apple Safari up to 10.5.2 (Web Browser) and classified as problematic. Affected by this vulnerability is some unknown processing of the component Certificates. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a information disclosure vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-200. The product exposes sensitive information to an actor that is not explicitly authorized to have access to that information. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality. The summary by CVE is:

CFNetwork in Safari in Apple Mac OS X before 10.5.3 automatically sends an SSL client certificate in response to a web server s certificate request, which allows remote web sites to obtain sensitive information (Subject data) from personally identifiable certificates, and use arbitrary certificates to track user activities across domains, a related issue to CVE-2007-4879.

The bug was discovered 05/28/2008. The weakness was released 06/02/2008 (Website). The advisory is shared at us-cert.gov. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2008-1580 since 03/31/2008. The attack can be launched remotely. The exploitation doesn't need any form of authentication. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available. MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1592 for this issue.

It is declared as proof-of-concept. The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 32477 (Mac OS X 10.5.x < 10.5.3 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.

Upgrading to version 10.5.3 eliminates this vulnerability. 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 (42708) and Tenable (32477). Entries connected to this vulnerability are available at 37528, 39128, 39127 and 38768.

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Class: Information disclosure
CWE: CWE-200 / CWE-284 / CWE-266
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Status: Proof-of-Concept

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Nessus ID: 32477
Nessus Name: Mac OS X 10.5.x < 10.5.3 Multiple Vulnerabilities
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OpenVAS ID: 102031
OpenVAS Name: get_kb_item(ssh/login/osx_name
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Recommended: Upgrade
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Upgrade: Safari 10.5.3

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Sourcesinfo

Vendor: apple.com

Advisory: us-cert.gov
Status: Confirmed

CVE: CVE-2008-1580 (🔍)
X-Force: 42708
SecurityTracker: 1020134
Vulnerability Center: 18517 - Safari CFNetworks in Apple Mac OS X Vulnerability Allows Remote Attackers to Disclose Information, Medium
SecurityFocus: 29493 - Apple Mac OS X CFNetwork SSL Client Certificate Handling Information Disclosure Vulnerability
Secunia: 30430
OSVDB: 45698 - Apple - Mac OS X - CFNetwork SSL Client Certificate Handling Information Disclosure Issue
Vupen: ADV-2008-1697

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Entryinfo

Created: 03/16/2015 17:00
Updated: 08/11/2019 09:05
Changes: 03/16/2015 17:00 (71), 08/11/2019 09:05 (11)
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