Apple Mac OS X up to 10.11.0 CFNetwork Cookie code

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability categorized as critical has been discovered in Apple Mac OS X up to 10.11.0. This issue affects some unknown processing of the component CFNetwork. The manipulation results in Remote Code Execution (Cookie). This vulnerability is identified as CVE-2015-7023. There is not any exploit available. It is advisable to upgrade the affected component.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability classified as critical has been found in Apple Mac OS X up to 10.11.0 (Operating System). Affected is an unknown functionality of the component CFNetwork. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a code vulnerability (Cookie). CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-17. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

CFNetwork in Apple iOS before 9.1 and OS X before 10.11.1 does not properly consider the uppercase-versus-lowercase distinction during cookie parsing, which allows remote web servers to overwrite cookies via unspecified vectors.

The weakness was released 10/21/2015 by Marvin Scholz, Xiaofeng Zheng, Jinjin Liang, Jian Jiang, Haixin Duan, Shuo Chen, Tao Wan and Nicholas Weaver with Microsoft as HT205375 as confirmed advisory (Website). The advisory is available at support.apple.com. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2015-7023 since 09/16/2015. It is possible to launch the attack remotely. The exploitation doesn't require any form of authentication. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available. The advisory points out:

A parsing issue existed when handling cookies with different letter casing. This issue was addressed through improved parsing.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 86654 (Mac OS X < 10.11.1 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. The commercial vulnerability scanner Qualys is able to test this issue with plugin 124172 (Apple Mac OS X v10.11.1 Not Installed (APPLE-SA-2015-10-21-4)).

Upgrading to version 10.11.1 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 Tenable (86654), SecurityFocus (BID 77263†) and Vulnerability Center (SBV-53811†). Entries connected to this vulnerability are available at VDB-68857, VDB-74877, VDB-74936 and VDB-77709. If you want to get best quality of vulnerability data, you may have to visit VulDB.

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Name: Cookie
Class: Code / Cookie
CWE: CWE-17
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Remote: Yes

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Nessus ID: 86654
Nessus Name: Mac OS X < 10.11.1 Multiple Vulnerabilities
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Recommended: Upgrade
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Upgrade: Mac OS X 10.11.1

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Sourcesinfo

Vendor: apple.com

Advisory: HT205375
Researcher: Marvin Scholz, Xiaofeng Zheng, Jinjin Liang, Jian Jiang, Haixin Duan, Shuo Chen, Tao Wan, Nicholas Weaver
Organization: Microsoft
Status: Confirmed
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CVE: CVE-2015-7023 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2015-7023
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-78786
SecurityFocus: 77263 - Apple iOS and Mac OS X Multiple Security Vulnerabilities
SecurityTracker: 1033929
Vulnerability Center: 53811 - Apple iOS <9.1 Remote Security Bypass and Cookies Overwriting in CFNetwork, Medium

scip Labs: https://www.scip.ch/en/?labs.20150108
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Entryinfo

Created: 10/22/2015 11:29
Updated: 06/24/2022 10:44
Changes: 10/22/2015 11:29 (69), 02/15/2018 11:20 (6), 06/24/2022 10:38 (3), 06/24/2022 10:44 (1)
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Cache ID: 216::103

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