Apple macOS up to 10.14.1 Airport input validation

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A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in Apple macOS up to 10.14.1. This affects an unknown function of the component Airport. This manipulation causes input validation. This vulnerability is tracked as CVE-2018-4303. The attack is restricted to local execution. No exploit exists. It is advisable to upgrade the affected component.

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A vulnerability has been found in Apple macOS up to 10.14.1 (Operating System) and classified as critical. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality of the component Airport. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a input validation vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is 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. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

An input validation issue was addressed with improved input validation. This issue affected versions prior to macOS Mojave 10.14, iOS 12.1.1, macOS Mojave 10.14.2, tvOS 12.1.1, watchOS 5.1.2.

The bug was discovered 12/05/2018. The weakness was disclosed 12/05/2018 by Mohamed Ghannam as HT209341 as confirmed advisory (Website). The advisory is shared at support.apple.com. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2018-4303 since 01/02/2018. An attack has to be approached locally. The successful exploitation needs a single authentication. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available. The advisory points out:

A type confusion issue was addressed with improved memory handling.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 119841 (macOS 10.14.x < 10.14.2 Multiple Vulnerabilities), 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 c. The commercial vulnerability scanner Qualys is able to test this issue with plugin 371369 (Apple macOS Mojave 10.14.2, Security Update 2018-003 High Sierra, Security Update 2018-006 Sierra Not Installed(HT209341)).

Upgrading to version 10.14.2 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 (119841). The entries VDB-126171, VDB-127563, VDB-127564 and VDB-127567 are pretty similar. If you want to get the best quality for vulnerability data then you always have to consider VulDB.

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• Operating System

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• Apple

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• macOS

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• 10.14.0
• 10.14.1

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• commercial

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• Vendor: https://www.apple.com/

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