Apple Safari access control

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability described as critical has been identified in Apple Safari. Impacted is an unknown function. Such manipulation leads to access control. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2008-3170. No exploit exists. Upgrading the affected component is recommended.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in Apple Safari (Web Browser) (unknown version). Affected by this issue is an unknown code block. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a access control vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-264. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

Apple Safari allows web sites to set cookies for country-specific top-level domains, such as co.uk and com.au, which could allow remote attackers to perform a session fixation attack and hijack a user s HTTP session, aka "Cross-Site Cooking," a related issue to CVE-2004-0746, CVE-2004-0866, and CVE-2004-0867.

The bug was discovered 07/12/2008. The weakness was disclosed 07/14/2008 by Alex (Website). The advisory is available at us-cert.gov. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2008-3170 since 07/14/2008. The attack may be launched remotely. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available. This vulnerability is assigned to T1068 by the MITRE ATT&CK project.

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 $25k-$100k. The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 35111 (Mac OS X 10.5.x < 10.5.6 Multiple Vulnerabilities), 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 116081 (Apple Mac OS X 10.5.6 and Security Update 2008-008 Not Installed (APPLE-SA-2008-12-15)).

Upgrading eliminates this vulnerability. A possible mitigation has been published 6 months after the disclosure of the vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (43839), Tenable (35111), SecurityFocus (BID 30192†), OSVDB (47275†) and Secunia (SA31128†). The entries VDB-41728, VDB-45513, VDB-45512 and VDB-45511 are pretty similar. If you want to get best quality of vulnerability data, you may have to visit VulDB.

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Class: Access control
CWE: CWE-264
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Remote: Yes

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Status: Proof-of-Concept

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Nessus ID: 35111
Nessus Name: Mac OS X 10.5.x < 10.5.6 Multiple Vulnerabilities
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OpenVAS ID: 102034
OpenVAS Name: get_kb_item(ssh/login/osx_name
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Recommended: Upgrade
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Sourcesinfo

Vendor: apple.com

Advisory: us-cert.gov
Researcher: Alex
Status: Not defined
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CVE: CVE-2008-3170 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2008-3170
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-43202
X-Force: 43839
SecurityFocus: 30192 - Apple Safari Domain Extensions Insecure Cookie Access Vulnerability
Secunia: 31128
OSVDB: 47275 - Apple - Safari - Domain Extensions Insecure Cookie Access Issue
SecurityTracker: 1020539
Vulnerability Center: 19100 - Apple Safari Allows Remote \x27Cross-Site Cooking\x27, Medium
Vupen: ADV-2008-3444

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Entryinfo

Created: 03/17/2015 12:19
Updated: 08/15/2019 10:37
Changes: 03/17/2015 12:19 (73), 08/15/2019 10:37 (12)
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Cache ID: 216::103

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