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8.8 | $0-$5k | 0.00 |
A vulnerability was found in Apple Mac OS X up to 10.11.1 (Operating System). It has been rated as critical. Affected by this issue is some unknown processing of the component Kernel. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a input validation vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-20. The product receives input or data, but it does
not validate or incorrectly validates that the input has the
properties that are required to process the data safely and
correctly. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:
The kernel in Apple iOS before 9.2, OS X before 10.11.2, tvOS before 9.1, and watchOS before 2.1 allows local users to gain privileges via a crafted mach message that is misparsed.
The weakness was presented 12/08/2015 by Ian Beer (j00ru) with Google Project Zero as HT205637 as confirmed advisory (Website). The advisory is shared for download at support.apple.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2015-7047 since 09/16/2015. The attack needs to be approached locally. Required for exploitation is a simple authentication. Technical details are unknown but a public exploit is available. The advisory points out:
An issue existed in the parsing of mach messages. This issue was addressed through improved validation of mach messages.
A public exploit has been developed by Google Security Research and been published 2 months after the advisory. The exploit is available at exploit-db.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 87321 (Mac OS X Multiple Vulnerabilities (Security Updates 2015-005 / 2015-008)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family MacOS X Local Security Checks and running in the context l.
Upgrading to version 10.11.2 eliminates this vulnerability. A possible mitigation has been published immediately after the disclosure of the vulnerability.
The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at Tenable (87321) and Exploit-DB (39371). See 78550, 78551, 79541 and 79545 for similar entries.
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Class: Input validationCWE: CWE-20
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Local: Yes
Remote: No
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Access: Public
Status: Proof-of-Concept
Author: Google Security Research
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Nessus ID: 87321
Nessus Name: Mac OS X Multiple Vulnerabilities (Security Updates 2015-005 / 2015-008)
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Upgrade: Mac OS X 10.11.2
Timeline
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Sources
Vendor: apple.comAdvisory: HT205637
Researcher: Ian Beer (j00ru)
Organization: Google Project Zero
Status: Confirmed
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CVE: CVE-2015-7047 (🔍)
SecurityTracker: 1034344
SecurityFocus: 78719 - Apple Mac OS X/watchOS/iOS/tvOS Multiple Security Vulnerabilities
scip Labs: https://www.scip.ch/en/?labs.20150108
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Entry
Created: 12/09/2015 14:05Updated: 06/29/2022 14:44
Changes: 12/09/2015 14:05 (44), 04/28/2018 23:57 (34), 06/29/2022 14:44 (3)
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