Apple Mac OS X up to 10.11.4 CommonCrypto User information disclosure
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A vulnerability was found in Apple Mac OS X up to 10.11.4 (Operating System). It has been rated as critical. This issue affects some unknown processing of the component CommonCrypto. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a information disclosure vulnerability (User). 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, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:
CCCrypt in CommonCrypto in Apple iOS before 9.3.2, OS X before 10.11.5, tvOS before 9.2.1, and watchOS before 2.2.1 mishandles return values during key-length calculations, which allows attackers to obtain sensitive information via a crafted app.
The weakness was presented 05/16/2016 by Juwei Lin (moony li) with Google Project Zero as HT206567 as confirmed advisory (Website). It is possible to read the advisory at support.apple.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2016-1802 since 01/13/2016. Attacking locally is a requirement. Required for exploitation is a simple authentication. It demands that the victim is doing some kind of user interaction. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available. The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1592 according to MITRE ATT&CK. The advisory points out:
An issue existed in the handling of return values in CCCrypt. This issue was addressed through improved key length management.
The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 91311 (Apple TV < 9.2.1 Multiple Vulnerabilities), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family Misc. and running in the context r. The commercial vulnerability scanner Qualys is able to test this issue with plugin 122912 (Apple Mac OS X v10.11.5 and Security Update 2016-003 Not Installed (APPLE-SA-2016-05-16-4)).
Upgrading to version 10.11.5 eliminates this vulnerability. A possible mitigation has been published immediately after the disclosure of the vulnerability.
The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at Tenable (91311). See 87425, 87434, 87435 and 87436 for similar entries.
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CPE 2.3
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Exploiting
Name: UserClass: Information disclosure / User
CWE: CWE-200 / CWE-284 / CWE-266
ATT&CK: T1592
Local: Yes
Remote: No
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Status: Not defined
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Nessus ID: 91311
Nessus Name: Apple TV < 9.2.1 Multiple Vulnerabilities
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OpenVAS ID: 801105
OpenVAS Name: Apple Mac OS X Multiple Vulnerabilities-01 November-2016
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Upgrade: Mac OS X 10.11.5
Timeline
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Sources
Vendor: apple.comAdvisory: HT206567
Researcher: Juwei Lin (moony li)
Organization: Google Project Zero
Status: Confirmed
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CVE: CVE-2016-1802 (🔍)
SecurityTracker: 1035890
SecurityFocus: 90694 - Apple Mac OS X/watchOS/iOS Multiple Security Vulnerabilities
scip Labs: https://www.scip.ch/en/?labs.20150108
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Entry
Created: 05/18/2016 11:58Updated: 08/19/2022 17:33
Changes: 05/18/2016 11:58 (60), 11/30/2018 12:01 (27), 08/19/2022 17:33 (3)
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