Apple Mac OS X up to 10.11.5 OpenSSL information disclosure

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A vulnerability was found in Apple Mac OS X up to 10.11.5 (Operating System). It has been declared as critical. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown code block of the component OpenSSL. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a information disclosure vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-200. The product exposes sensitive information to an actor that is not explicitly authorized to have access to that information. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability.

The weakness was presented 07/18/2016 by Juraj Somorovsky with Oracle as HT206903 as confirmed advisory (Website). The advisory is shared at support.apple.com. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2016-2107 since 01/29/2016. The exploitation appears to be difficult. The attack can be launched remotely. The exploitation doesn't need any form of authentication. Technical details are unknown but a public exploit is available. MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1592 for this issue. The advisory points out:

Multiple issues existed in OpenSSL. These issues were resolved by backporting the fixes from OpenSSL 1.0.2h/1.0.1 to OpenSSL 0.9.8.

It is possible to download the exploit at exploit-db.com. It is declared as proof-of-concept. The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 92585 (Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control Multiple Vulnerabilities (July 2016 CPU)), 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 l. The commercial vulnerability scanner Qualys is able to test this issue with plugin 196457 (Ubuntu Security Notification for Openssl Vulnerabilities (USN-2959-1)).

Upgrading to version 10.11.6 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 (92585) and Exploit-DB (39768). See 76354, 78584, 78603 and 78601 for similar entries.

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

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Nessus ID: 92585
Nessus Name: Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control Multiple Vulnerabilities (July 2016 CPU)
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OpenVAS ID: 14611
OpenVAS Name: Amazon Linux Local Check: alas-2016-695
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Recommended: Upgrade
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Upgrade: Mac OS X 10.11.6
Patch: 68595c0c2886e7942a14f98c17a55a88afb6c292

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Vendor: apple.com

Advisory: HT206903
Researcher: Juraj Somorovsky
Organization: Oracle
Status: Confirmed
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CVE: CVE-2016-2107 (🔍)
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SecurityTracker: 1035721
SecurityFocus: 91787 - Oracle July 2016 Critical Patch Update Multiple Vulnerabilities

scip Labs: https://www.scip.ch/en/?labs.20150108
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Created: 07/19/2016 19:25
Updated: 09/06/2022 10:01
Changes: 07/19/2016 19:25 (59), 03/03/2019 11:57 (29), 09/06/2022 10:01 (7)
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