Apple Safari 10.5 information disclosure

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A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in Apple Safari 10.5 (Web Browser). Affected by this issue is an unknown function. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a information disclosure vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-200. The product exposes sensitive information to an actor that is not explicitly authorized to have access to that information. Impacted is confidentiality. CVE summarizes:

Unspecified vulnerability in Apple Safari on Mac OS X 10.5 and Windows allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files on a client machine via vectors related to the association of Safari with the (1) feed, (2) feeds, and (3) feedsearch URL types for RSS feeds. NOTE: as of 20090114, the only disclosure is a vague pre-advisory. However, because it is from a well-known researcher, it is being assigned a CVE identifier for tracking purposes.

The bug was discovered 01/11/2009. The weakness was published 01/15/2009 by Clint Ruoho with Laconic Security (Website). The advisory is shared for download at securityfocus.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2009-0123 since 01/15/2009. 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 $5k-$25k (estimation calculated on 08/26/2019). The MITRE ATT&CK project declares the attack technique as T1592.

The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 4 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 (47917). Similar entry is available at 46517.

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Class: Information disclosure
CWE: CWE-200 / CWE-284 / CWE-266
ATT&CK: T1592

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OpenVAS ID: 800506
OpenVAS Name: Apple Safari RSS Feed Information Disclosure Vulnerability
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Vendor: apple.com

Advisory: securityfocus.com
Researcher: Clint Ruoho
Organization: Laconic Security
Status: Confirmed

CVE: CVE-2009-0123 (🔍)
X-Force: 47917
SecurityTracker: 1021581
Vulnerability Center: 20677 - Apple Safari on Mac OS X 10.5 Remote Information Disclosure Vulnerability, Medium
SecurityFocus: 33234 - Apple Safari 'feed:' URI Multiple Input Validation Vulnerabilities
Secunia: 33458
OSVDB: 51405 - Apple - Safari - RSS Feed Information Disclosure Issue

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Created: 03/17/2015 16:11
Updated: 08/26/2019 10:59
Changes: 03/17/2015 16:11 (71), 08/26/2019 10:59 (3)
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