Apple Safari up to 4.0 Beta information disclosure

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A vulnerability was found in Apple Safari (Web Browser) and classified as critical. Affected by this issue is an unknown code. 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:

WebKit in Apple Safari before 4.0 allows user-assisted remote attackers to obtain sensitive information via vectors involving drag events and the dragging of content over a crafted web page.

The weakness was disclosed 06/10/2009 by Tavis Ormandy (Shadow) with Microsoft Vulnerability Research (Website). The advisory is available at vupen.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2009-1718 since 05/20/2009. The attack may be launched remotely. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. Technical details are unknown but a public exploit is available. This vulnerability is assigned to T1592 by the MITRE ATT&CK project.

The exploit is available at securityfocus.com. It is declared as proof-of-concept. As 0-day the estimated underground price was around $5k-$25k. The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 39356 (Google Chrome < 2.0.172.31 WebKit Multiple Vulnerabilities), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family Windows and running in the context l.

Upgrading to version 3.1.2 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 (51041) and Tenable (39356). The entries 30600, 43510, 43183 and 45184 are pretty similar.

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VulDB Meta Base Score: 7.5
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Class: Information disclosure
CWE: CWE-200 / CWE-284 / CWE-266
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Remote: Yes

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Access: Public
Status: Proof-of-Concept
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Nessus ID: 39356
Nessus Name: Google Chrome < 2.0.172.31 WebKit Multiple Vulnerabilities
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OpenVAS ID: 800814
OpenVAS Name: Apple Safari Multiple Vulnerabilities June-09 (Win) - I
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Recommended: Upgrade
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Upgrade: Safari 3.1.2

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06/08/2009 +19 days 🔍
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09/06/2019 +1634 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Vendor: apple.com

Advisory: vupen.com
Researcher: Tavis Ormandy (Shadow)
Organization: Microsoft Vulnerability Research
Status: Not defined
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CVE: CVE-2009-1718 (🔍)
X-Force: 51041
Vulnerability Center: 22562 - Apple Safari < 4.0 and Google Chrome < 2.0.172.31 WebKit Remote Sensitive Information Disclosure, Medium
SecurityFocus: 35260 - RETIRED: Apple Safari Prior to 4.0 Multiple Security Vulnerabilities
Secunia: 35379
OSVDB: 55043 - Google Chrome WebKit Unspecified Drag and Drop Information Disclosure
Vupen: ADV-2009-1522

scip Labs: https://www.scip.ch/en/?labs.20161013
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Entryinfo

Created: 03/17/2015 23:38
Updated: 09/06/2019 09:26
Changes: 03/17/2015 23:38 (76), 09/06/2019 09:26 (7)
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