Apple Mac OS X up to 10.3.9 Filesystem information disclosure

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, was found in Apple Mac OS X up to 10.3.9. Affected is an unknown function of the component Filesystem. Such manipulation leads to information disclosure. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2007-0743. No exploit exists. It is recommended to add further authentication.

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A vulnerability was found in Apple Mac OS X up to 10.3.9 (Operating System). It has been rated as problematic. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality of the component Filesystem. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a information disclosure vulnerability. 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. CVE summarizes:

URLMount in Apple Mac OS X 10.3.9 through 10.4.9 passes the username and password credentials for mounting filesystems on SMB servers as command line arguments to the mount_sub command, which may allow local users to obtain sensitive information by listing the process.

The bug was discovered 04/17/2007. The weakness was disclosed 04/19/2007 by Daniel Ball, Geoff Franks and Jamie Cox with Mu Security research team (Website). The advisory is shared for download at us-cert.gov. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2007-0743 since 02/05/2007. 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 T1592.

It is declared as proof-of-concept. The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 2 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $5k-$25k. The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 25081 (Mac OS X Multiple Vulnerabilities (Security Update 2007-004)), 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 115539 (Apple Mac OS X Security Update 2007-004 Not Installed (APPLE-SA-2007-04-19)).

It is possible to mitigate the problem by adding an authentication mechanism. A possible mitigation has been published before and not just after the disclosure of the vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at Tenable (25081), SecurityFocus (BID 23569†), OSVDB (34867†), Secunia (SA24966†) and SecurityTracker (ID 1017942†). The entries VDB-2060, VDB-2870, VDB-33942 and VDB-34769 are pretty similar. Once again VulDB remains the best source for vulnerability data.

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Class: Information disclosure
CWE: CWE-200 / CWE-284 / CWE-266
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Physical: Partially
Local: Yes
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Nessus ID: 25081
Nessus Name: Mac OS X Multiple Vulnerabilities (Security Update 2007-004)
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Sourcesinfo

Vendor: apple.com

Advisory: us-cert.gov
Researcher: Daniel Ball, Geoff Franks, Jamie Cox
Organization: Mu Security research team
Status: Confirmed
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CVE: CVE-2007-0743 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2007-0743
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-36332
SecurityFocus: 23569 - Apple Mac OS X 2007-004 Multiple Security Vulnerabilities
Secunia: 24966
OSVDB: 34867 - Apple Mac OS X URLMount mount_sub Process Listing Local Authentication Credential Disclosure
SecurityTracker: 1017942
Vulnerability Center: 14948 - Apple Mac OS X URLMount Discloses the Username and Password Credentials, Low
Vupen: ADV-2007-1470

scip Labs: https://www.scip.ch/en/?labs.20150108
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Created: 03/13/2015 14:56
Updated: 06/14/2025 00:54
Changes: 03/13/2015 14:56 (77), 07/18/2019 14:17 (5), 06/14/2025 00:54 (18)
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