Apple Safari 1.0/1.1 Link Cookie information disclosure

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability marked as critical has been reported in Apple Safari 1.0/1.1. Affected is an unknown function of the component Link Handler. The manipulation leads to information disclosure (Cookie). This vulnerability is listed as CVE-2003-0975. There is no available exploit. It is suggested to upgrade the affected component.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in Apple Safari 1.0/1.1 (Web Browser). This issue affects an unknown code of the component Link Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a information disclosure vulnerability (Cookie). 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. The summary by CVE is:

Apple Safari 1.0 through 1.1 on Mac OS X 10.3.1 and Mac OS X 10.2.8 allows remote attackers to steal user cookies from another domain via a link with a hex-encoded null character (%00) followed by the target domain.

The bug was discovered 09/28/2017. The weakness was presented 12/15/2003 (Website). The advisory is shared at marc.info. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2003-0975 since 12/05/2003. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is needed for a successful exploitation. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available. MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1592 for this issue.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 12515 (Mac OS X Safari Null Character Cookie Theft (Security Update 2003-12-05)), 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 eliminates this vulnerability. A possible mitigation has been published even before and not after the disclosure of the vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (7973), Tenable (12515), SecurityFocus (BID 9065†), OSVDB (2860†) and Vulnerability Center (SBV-7887†). If you want to get the best quality for vulnerability data then you always have to consider VulDB.

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Exploitinginfo

Name: Cookie
Class: Information disclosure / Cookie
CWE: CWE-200 / CWE-284 / CWE-266
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Local: No
Remote: Yes

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Nessus ID: 12515
Nessus Name: Mac OS X Safari Null Character Cookie Theft (Security Update 2003-12-05)
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Recommended: Upgrade
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01/21/2002 🔍
11/15/2002 +298 days 🔍
11/18/2003 +368 days 🔍
12/05/2003 +17 days 🔍
12/15/2003 +10 days 🔍
12/15/2003 +0 days 🔍
07/06/2004 +204 days 🔍
05/08/2005 +306 days 🔍
08/22/2014 +3393 days 🔍
09/28/2017 +1133 days 🔍
06/01/2019 +611 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Vendor: apple.com

Advisory: marc.info
Status: Not defined
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CVE: CVE-2003-0975 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2003-0975
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-21053
X-Force: 7973
SecurityFocus: 9065 - Apple Safari Web Browser Null Character Cookie Stealing Vulnerability
OSVDB: 2860 - CVE-2003-0975 - Apple - Safari - Information Disclosure Issue
Vulnerability Center: 7887 - Mozilla, Netscape and Safari Allow Stealing Cookie-Based Authentication via Null Character, Medium

Entryinfo

Created: 08/22/2014 13:06
Updated: 06/01/2019 09:52
Changes: 08/22/2014 13:06 (65), 06/01/2019 09:52 (7)
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Cache ID: 216:527:103

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