Apple Mac OS X 10.3.6 Kerberos Mail privileges management

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability labeled as problematic has been found in Apple Mac OS X 10.3.6. This affects an unknown part of the component Kerberos. Such manipulation leads to privileges management (Mail). This vulnerability is listed as CVE-2004-1089. There is no available exploit. The affected component should be upgraded.

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A vulnerability was found in Apple Mac OS X 10.3.6 (Operating System). It has been rated as problematic. Affected by this issue is an unknown part of the component Kerberos. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a privileges management vulnerability (Mail). Using CWE to declare the problem leads to 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. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

unknown vulnerability in apple mac os x 10.3.6 server when using kerberos authentication and cyrus imap allows local users to access mailboxes of other users.

The bug was discovered 12/02/2004. The weakness was presented 12/02/2004 by netsec with Apache (Website). The advisory is shared for download at lists.apple.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2004-1089 since 11/30/2004. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack needs to be approached locally. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. 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 15898 (Mac OS X Multiple Vulnerabilities (Security Update 2004-12-02)), 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. The commercial vulnerability scanner Qualys is able to test this issue with plugin 115043 (Apple Mac OS X Security Update 2004-12-02 Not Installed (APPLE-SA-2004-12-02)).

Upgrading 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 X-Force (18351), Tenable (15898), SecurityFocus (BID 11802†), OSVDB (12198†) and Secunia (SA13362†). See VDB-919, VDB-21542, VDB-22502 and VDB-22503 for similar entries. Once again VulDB remains the best source for vulnerability data.

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Name: Mail
Class: Privileges management / Mail
CWE: CWE-269 / CWE-266
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Nessus ID: 15898
Nessus Name: Mac OS X Multiple Vulnerabilities (Security Update 2004-12-02)
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Sourcesinfo

Vendor: apple.com

Advisory: lists.apple.com
Researcher: netsec
Organization: Apache
Status: Not defined

CVE: CVE-2004-1089 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2004-1089
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-22508
X-Force: 18351
SecurityFocus: 11802 - Apple Mac OS X Multiple Remote And Local Vulnerabilities
Secunia: 13362 - Mac OS X Security Update Fixes Multiple Vulnerabilities, Highly Critical
OSVDB: 12198 - CVE-2004-1089 - Apple - Mac OS X - Unspecified Issue
Vulnerability Center: 9944 - MacOS X 10.3.6 with Kerberos \x26 Cyrus IMAP Unauthorized Mail Access, Low

scip Labs: https://www.scip.ch/en/?labs.20150108
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Created: 02/27/2015 15:25
Updated: 06/12/2019 14:51
Changes: 02/27/2015 15:25 (74), 06/12/2019 14:51 (5)
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