Apple Xcode up to 15.3 Keychain Item access control

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability classified as critical has been found in Apple Xcode. Affected is an unknown function of the component Keychain Item Handler. The manipulation leads to access control. This vulnerability is documented as CVE-2024-44162. The attack needs to be performed locally. There is not any exploit available. It is recommended to upgrade the affected component.

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A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, has been found in Apple Xcode. This issue affects some unknown processing of the component Keychain Item Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a access control vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-284. The product does not restrict or incorrectly restricts access to a resource from an unauthorized actor. Impacted is confidentiality. The summary by CVE is:

This issue was addressed by enabling hardened runtime. This issue is fixed in Xcode 16. A malicious application may gain access to a user's Keychain items.

The advisory is shared at support.apple.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2024-44162 since 08/20/2024. The exploitation is known to be easy. An attack has to be approached locally. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available. MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1068 for this issue.

Upgrading to version 16 eliminates this vulnerability.

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Type

• Programming Tool Software

Vendor

• Apple

Name

• Xcode

Version

• 1.5
• 1.5.0
• 2.0.0
• 2.1.0
• 2.2.0
• 2.3.0
• 2.4.0
• 2.4.1
• 3.1
• 3.1.1
• 3.1.2
• 3.1.3
• 3.1.4
• 3.2.1
• 3.2.2
• 3.2.3
• 3.2.4
• 3.2.5
• 4.0.1
• 4.0.2
• 4.1.1
• 4.2
• 4.2.1
• 4.3
• 4.3.1
• 4.3.2
• 4.3.3
• 4.4
• 6.2
• 6.2 beta 3
• 6.3
• 7
• 7.0
• 7.1
• 7.2
• 7.3
• 8
• 8.0R10
• 8.1
• 8.1R2
• 9.0
• 9.2
• 9.3
• 10
• 10.2
• 11.0
• 11.1
• 11.2
• 11.3
• 11.5
• 12.0
• 12.4
• 12.5
• 13.0
• 13.3
• 13.4
• 13.4.0
• 14
• 14.0
• 14.1
• 14.3
• 15
• 15.3

License

• commercial

Website

• Vendor: https://www.apple.com/

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