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A vulnerability was found in Apple Mac OS X up to 10.5.0 (Operating System). It has been declared as critical. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown code of the component Core. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a access control vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-264. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:
Incomplete blacklist vulnerability in the Quarantine feature in CoreTypes in Apple Mac OS X 10.5 before 10.5.6 allows user-assisted remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via an executable file with the content type indicating no application association for the file, which does not trigger a "potentially unsafe" warning message.
The bug was discovered 12/15/2008. The weakness was released 12/16/2008 by Alex with IOActive (Website). It is possible to read the advisory at us-cert.gov. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2008-4234 since 09/24/2008. The attack can be launched remotely. The exploitation doesn't need any form of authentication. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available. The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1068 according to MITRE ATT&CK.
It is declared as proof-of-concept. The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 35111 (Mac OS X 10.5.x < 10.5.6 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 116081 (Apple Mac OS X 10.5.6 and Security Update 2008-008 Not Installed (APPLE-SA-2008-12-15)).
Upgrading to version 10.5.1 eliminates this vulnerability. A possible mitigation has been published before and not just after the disclosure of the vulnerability.
The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (47689) and Tenable (35111). Entries connected to this vulnerability are available at 41728, 43202, 45513 and 45512.
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Class: Access controlCWE: CWE-264
ATT&CK: T1068
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Remote: Yes
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Status: Proof-of-Concept
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Nessus ID: 35111
Nessus Name: Mac OS X 10.5.x < 10.5.6 Multiple Vulnerabilities
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OpenVAS ID: 102034
OpenVAS Name: get_kb_item(ssh/login/osx_name
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Upgrade: Mac OS X 10.5.1
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Sources
Vendor: apple.comAdvisory: us-cert.gov
Researcher: Alex
Organization: IOActive
Status: Confirmed
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CVE: CVE-2008-4234 (🔍)
X-Force: 47689
SecurityTracker: 1021400
Vulnerability Center: 20295 - Apple Mac OS X 10.5 - 10.5.5 CoreTypes Quarantine Feature No Warnings before Unsafe Downloads, Medium
SecurityFocus: 32839 - RETIRED: Apple Mac OS X 2008-008 Multiple Security Vulnerabilities
Secunia: 33179 - Apple Mac OS X Security Update Fixes Multiple Vulnerabilities, Highly Critical
OSVDB: 50958 - CVE-2008-4234 - Apple - Mac OS X -
Vupen: ADV-2008-3444
scip Labs: https://www.scip.ch/en/?labs.20150108
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Entry
Created: 03/17/2015 16:11Updated: 08/22/2019 16:42
Changes: 03/17/2015 16:11 (86), 08/22/2019 16:42 (4)
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