Apple iOS up to 8.4.1 Apple Pay information disclosure

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A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, has been found in Apple iOS up to 8.4.1 (Smartphone Operating System). Affected by this issue is some unknown processing of the component Apple Pay. 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:

The Apple Pay component in Apple iOS before 9 allows remote terminals to obtain sensitive recent-transaction information during payments by leveraging the transaction-log feature.

The weakness was disclosed 09/16/2015 by Filippo Bigarella (beist) as HT205212 as confirmed advisory (Website). The advisory is available at support.apple.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2015-5916 since 08/06/2015. The attack may be launched remotely. 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 06/15/2022). It is expected to see the exploit prices for this product increasing in the near future.This vulnerability is assigned to T1592 by the MITRE ATT&CK project. The advisory points out:

The transaction log functionality was enabled in certain configurations. This issue was addressed by removing the transaction log functionality. This issue did not affect iPad devices.

Upgrading to version 9 eliminates this vulnerability. A possible mitigation has been published immediately after the disclosure of the vulnerability.

The entries 9015, 68413, 77828 and 77763 are pretty similar.

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VulDB Meta Base Score: 5.3
VulDB Meta Temp Score: 5.1

VulDB Base Score: 5.3
VulDB Temp Score: 5.1
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Exploitinginfo

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

Local: No
Remote: Yes

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Status: Not defined

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Countermeasuresinfo

Recommended: Upgrade
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Upgrade: iOS 9

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08/06/2015 🔍
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Sourcesinfo

Vendor: apple.com

Advisory: HT205212
Researcher: Filippo Bigarella (beist)
Status: Confirmed
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CVE: CVE-2015-5916 (🔍)
SecurityTracker: 1033609
SecurityFocus: 76764 - Apple iOS APPLE-SA-2015-09-16-1 Multiple Security Vulnerabilities

scip Labs: https://www.scip.ch/en/?labs.20150917
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Entryinfo

Created: 09/18/2015 01:08 PM
Updated: 06/15/2022 08:03 PM
Changes: 09/18/2015 01:08 PM (51), 12/24/2017 09:52 AM (13), 06/15/2022 08:03 PM (3)
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