CVSS Meta Temp Score | Current Exploit Price (≈) | CTI Interest Score |
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9.3 | $5k-$25k | 0.00 |
A vulnerability was found in Apple Mac OS X 10.5.8 (Operating System) and classified as critical. Affected by this issue is an unknown part. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a memory corruption vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-119. The product performs operations on a memory buffer, but it can read from or write to a memory location that is outside of the intended boundary of the buffer. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:
Heap-based buffer overflow in the USB backend in CUPS in Apple Mac OS X 10.5.8 allows local users to gain privileges via unspecified vectors.
The weakness was presented 09/10/2009 with Apple (Website). The advisory is available at securityfocus.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2009-2807. The exploitation is known to be easy. Local access is required to approach this attack. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available. The structure of the vulnerability defines a possible price range of USD $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 08/22/2021).
The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 40945 (Mac OS X Multiple Vulnerabilities (Security Update 2009-005)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family MacOS X Local Security Checks. The commercial vulnerability scanner Qualys is able to test this issue with plugin 116609 (Apple Mac OS X Security Update 2009-005 Not Installed (APPLE-SA-2009-09-10-2)).
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 databases at X-Force (53168) and Tenable (40945). See 47872, 47871, 47520 and 50023 for similar entries.
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CPE 2.3
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Exploiting
Class: Memory corruptionCWE: CWE-119
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Nessus ID: 40945
Nessus Name: Mac OS X Multiple Vulnerabilities (Security Update 2009-005)
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OpenVAS ID: 102028
OpenVAS Name: get_kb_item(ssh/login/osx_name
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Timeline
08/17/2009 🔍09/10/2009 🔍
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Sources
Vendor: apple.comAdvisory: securityfocus.com⛔
Organization: Apple
Status: Not defined
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CVE: CVE-2009-2807 (🔍)
X-Force: 53168
Vulnerability Center: 23480 - Apple Mac OS 10.5 - 10.5.8 CUPS USB Backend Local SYSTEM Privilege Escalation Vulnerability, High
SecurityFocus: 36350 - CUPS USB backend Local Heap Based Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
OSVDB: 57951 - Apple Mac OS X CUPS USB Backend Unspecified Local Overflow
scip Labs: https://www.scip.ch/en/?labs.20150108
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Entry
Created: 03/18/2015 15:15Updated: 08/22/2021 14:49
Changes: 03/18/2015 15:15 (61), 02/14/2017 16:33 (10), 08/22/2021 14:48 (4), 08/22/2021 14:49 (1)
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