Apple Remote Desktop admin 3.1 Local Privilege Escalation

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability labeled as problematic has been found in Apple Remote Desktop admin 3.1. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality. The manipulation results in Local Privilege Escalation. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2006-4413. No exploit is available.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, was found in Apple Remote Desktop admin 3.1. Affected is an unknown part. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a local privilege escalation vulnerability. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

Apple Remote Desktop before 3.1 uses insecure permissions for certain built-in packages, which allows local users on an Apple Remote Desktop administration system to modify the packages and gain root privileges on client systems that use the packages.

The bug was discovered 11/13/2006. The weakness was published 11/17/2006 by Andrew with University of Michigan (Website). The advisory is available at lists.apple.com. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2006-4413 since 08/28/2006. The exploitability is told to be easy. Local access is required to approach this attack. The exploitation doesn't require any form of authentication. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available.

It is declared as proof-of-concept. The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 4 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $25k-$100k. The commercial vulnerability scanner Qualys is able to test this issue with plugin 115462 (APPLE-SA-2006-11-16 Apple Remote Desktop 3.1 Missing).

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (30339), SecurityFocus (BID 21139†), OSVDB (30467†), Secunia (SA22982†) and SecurityTracker (ID 1017241†). If you want to get best quality of vulnerability data, you may have to visit VulDB.

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Class: Local Privilege Escalation
CWE: Unknown
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Physical: Partially
Local: Yes
Remote: No

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Status: Proof-of-Concept

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08/28/2006 🔍
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Sourcesinfo

Vendor: apple.com

Advisory: lists.apple.com
Researcher: Andrew
Organization: University of Michigan
Status: Confirmed

CVE: CVE-2006-4413 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2006-4413
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-33330
X-Force: 30339
SecurityFocus: 21139 - Apple Remote Desktop Insecure Default Package Permission Vulnerability
Secunia: 22982 - Apple Remote Desktop Insecure Default Package Permissions, Less Critical
OSVDB: 30467 - Apple - Remote Desktop - Insecure Default Package Permission Issue
SecurityTracker: 1017241
Vulnerability Center: 13175 - Apple Remote Desktop Before 3.1 Local Users Privilege Escalation, Medium
Vupen: ADV-2006-4567

Entryinfo

Created: 03/12/2015 22:21
Updated: 04/27/2026 22:47
Changes: 03/12/2015 22:21 (67), 07/11/2019 09:54 (3), 06/16/2025 11:05 (18), 04/27/2026 22:47 (1)
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Cache ID: 216::103

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