Apple iOS up to 4.0.1 access control

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A vulnerability was found in Apple iOS up to 4.0.1 (Smartphone Operating System). It has been rated as critical. This issue affects an unknown code block. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a access control vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-264. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

Integer overflow in IOSurface in Apple iOS before 4.0.2 on the iPhone and iPod touch, and before 3.2.2 on the iPad, allows local users to gain privileges via vectors involving IOSurface properties, as demonstrated by JailbreakMe.

The weakness was shared 08/05/2010 by comex (Website). The advisory is shared at securityfocus.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2010-2973. An attack has to be approached locally. No form of authentication is needed for a successful exploitation. Technical details are unknown but a public exploit is available. MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1068 for this issue.

A public exploit has been developed by jailbreakme and been published before and not just after the advisory. The exploit is available at exploit-db.com. It is declared as proof-of-concept. The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 2 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $25k-$100k.

Upgrading to version 4.0.2 eliminates this vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at Exploit-DB (14538). The entries 4156 and 4157 are related to this item.

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Class: Access control
CWE: CWE-264
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Local: Yes
Remote: No

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Access: Public
Status: Proof-of-Concept
Author: jailbreakme
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Recommended: Upgrade
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Upgrade: iOS 4.0.2
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Vendor: apple.com

Advisory: securityfocus.com⛔
Researcher: comex
Status: Confirmed
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CVE: CVE-2010-2973 (🔍)
X-Force: 60856
Vulnerability Center: 26698 - Apple iOS 4.0.1 on iPhone, iPad, and iPod Local Privilege Escalation Unspecified Vulnerability, High
SecurityFocus: 42151 - Apple iOS for iPhone/iPad/iPod touch Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
Secunia: 40807
OSVDB: 66828

scip Labs: https://www.scip.ch/en/?labs.20150917
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Created: 03/19/2015 14:37
Updated: 09/21/2021 20:39
Changes: 03/19/2015 14:37 (53), 04/12/2019 11:20 (18), 09/21/2021 20:30 (4), 09/21/2021 20:39 (1)
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