Macromedia Flash Player up to 6.0.46 privileges management

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in Macromedia Flash Player up to 6.0.46. It has been declared as critical. This issue affects some unknown processing. The manipulation results in privileges management. This vulnerability is identified as CVE-2002-1467. There is not any exploit available. It is recommended to upgrade the affected component.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability classified as critical has been found in Macromedia Flash Player up to 6.0.46 (Multimedia Player Software). Affected is some unknown processing. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a privileges management vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-269. The product does not properly assign, modify, track, or check privileges for an actor, creating an unintended sphere of control for that actor. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality. CVE summarizes:

Macromedia Flash Plugin before 6,0,47,0 allows remote attackers to bypass the same-domain restriction and read arbitrary files via (1) an HTTP redirect, (2) a "file://" base in a web document, or (3) a relative URL from a web archive (mht file).

The weakness was released 04/22/2003 by jelmer as not defined posting (Bugtraq). The advisory is shared for download at online.securityfocus.com. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2002-1467. The exploitability is told to be easy. It is possible to launch the attack remotely. The exploitation doesn't require any form of authentication. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available. The MITRE ATT&CK project declares the attack technique as T1068.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 12355 (RHEL 2.1 : netscape (RHSA-2003:027)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family Red Hat Local Security Checks and running in the context l. The commercial vulnerability scanner Qualys is able to test this issue with plugin 23016 (Macromedia Flash Malformed Header Buffer Overflow Vulnerability).

Upgrading to version 6.0 eliminates this vulnerability. A possible mitigation has been published 3 months after the disclosure of the vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (9797), Tenable (12355), SecurityFocus (BID 5429†) and Vulnerability Center (SBV-2288†). Entry connected to this vulnerability is available at VDB-18722. VulDB is the best source for vulnerability data and more expert information about this specific topic.

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Class: Privileges management
CWE: CWE-269 / CWE-266
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Nessus ID: 12355
Nessus Name: RHEL 2.1 : netscape (RHSA-2003:027)
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Recommended: Upgrade
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Upgrade: Flash Player 6.0

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08/08/2002 +1 days 🔍
04/22/2003 +257 days 🔍
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10/13/2003 +96 days 🔍
07/06/2004 +267 days 🔍
08/08/2014 +3685 days 🔍
05/15/2019 +1741 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Vendor: macromedia.com

Advisory: online.securityfocus.com⛔
Researcher: jelmer
Status: Not defined
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CVE: CVE-2002-1467 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2002-1467
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-20376
X-Force: 9797
SecurityFocus: 5429 - Macromedia Flash Player Arbitrary Local File Access Vulnerability
Vulnerability Center: 2288 - Macromedia Flash Player allows Arbitrary Local File Read, Low

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Entryinfo

Created: 08/08/2014 13:15
Updated: 05/15/2019 17:28
Changes: 08/08/2014 13:15 (73), 05/15/2019 17:28 (1)
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Cache ID: 216::103

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