Executive Summary
Summary | |
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Title | Apple QuickTime for Java may allow Java applets to gain elevated privileges |
Informations | |||
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Name | VU#319771 | First vendor Publication | 2007-11-08 |
Vendor | VU-CERT | Last vendor Modification | 2007-11-08 |
Severity (Vendor) | N/A | Revision | M |
Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3
Cvss vector : N/A | |||
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Overall CVSS Score | NA | ||
Base Score | NA | Environmental Score | NA |
impact SubScore | NA | Temporal Score | NA |
Exploitabality Sub Score | NA | ||
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2
Cvss vector : (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C) | |||
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Cvss Base Score | 9.3 | Attack Range | Network |
Cvss Impact Score | 10 | Attack Complexity | Medium |
Cvss Expoit Score | 8.6 | Authentication | None Required |
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Detail
Vulnerability Note VU#319771Apple QuickTime for Java may allow Java applets to gain elevated privilegesOverviewApple QuickTime for Java contains a vulnerability that may allow a malicious Java applet to gain elevated privileges.I. DescriptionApple QuickTime is a media player that includes a browser plugin. QuickTime for Java provides APIs which allow Java developers to include multimedia in Java applets.From Apple Article ID: 306896"About the security content of QuickTime 7.3":
To exploit this vulnerability, an attacker would have to convince a user to open a specially crafted Java applet which could be hosted on a webpage. II. ImpactA remote, unauthenticated attacker may be able to take any action that the user running QuickTime can.III. SolutionUpgradeApple has addressed this issue in QuickTime 7.3.
References
Apple credits Adam Gowdiak for reporting this issue This document was written by Ryan Giobbi.
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Original Source
Url : http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/319771 |
CPE : Common Platform Enumeration
Open Source Vulnerability Database (OSVDB)
Id | Description |
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38548 | Apple QuickTime for Java Unspecified Applet Privilege Escalation |
Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner
Date | Description |
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2007-11-06 | Name : The remote Mac OS X host contains an application that is affected by multiple... File : macosx_Quicktime73.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
2007-11-06 | Name : The remote Windows host contains an application that is affected by multiple ... File : quicktime_73.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |