Executive Summary

Summary
Title Apple Mac OS X fails to properly handle a crafted URL
Informations
Name VU#774345 First vendor Publication 2008-02-12
Vendor VU-CERT Last vendor Modification 2008-02-12
Severity (Vendor) N/A Revision M

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
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:P/I:P/A:P)
Cvss Base Score 6.8 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 6.4 Attack Complexity Medium
Cvss Expoit Score 8.6 Authentication None Required
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Detail

Vulnerability Note VU#774345

Apple Mac OS X fails to properly handle a crafted URL

Overview

A vulnerability in the way Apple Mac OS X handles specially crafted URLs may allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code.

I. Description

According to Apple Security Update 2008-001:

    An input validation issue exists in the processing of URL schemes handled by Terminal.app. By enticing a user to visit a maliciously crafted web page, an attacker may cause an application to be launched with controlled command line arguments, which may lead to arbitrary code execution.


Note that this vulnerability affects Apple Mac OS X v10.4.11, Mac OS X Server v10.4.11, Mac OS X v10.5 and v10.5.1, and Mac OS X Server v10.5 and v10.5.1.

II. Impact

A remote, unauthenticated attacker may be able to execute arbitrary code.

III. Solution

Apply an update

This issue is addressed in Apple Security Update 2008-001 and Apple Mac OS X 10.5.2.

Systems Affected

VendorStatusDate Updated
Apple Computer, Inc.Vulnerable12-Feb-2008

References


http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=307430
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=307109

Credit

This issue was reported in Apple Security Update 2008-001. Apple credits Olli Leppanen of Digital Film Finland and Brian Mastenbrook for reporting this issue.

This document was written by Chris Taschner.

Other Information

Date Public02/12/2008
Date First Published02/12/2008 01:24:56 PM
Date Last Updated02/12/2008
CERT Advisory 
CVE NameCVE-2008-0042
US-CERT Technical Alerts 
Metric20.20
Document Revision4

Original Source

Url : http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/774345

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
100 % CWE-94 Failure to Control Generation of Code ('Code Injection')

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Os 3

OpenVAS Exploits

Date Description
2010-05-12 Name : Mac OS X 10.5.2 Update / Mac OS X Security Update 2008-001
File : nvt/macosx_upd_10_5_2_secupd_2008-001.nasl
2009-11-17 Name : Mac OS X Version
File : nvt/macosx_version.nasl

Open Source Vulnerability Database (OSVDB)

Id Description
41503 Apple Mac OS X Terminal.app Unspecified URL Handling Argument Injection

A code execution flaw exists in Mac OS X. Terminal.app fails to validate URLs resulting in a controlled command-line execution. With a specially crafted URL, a context-dependent attacker can cause arbitrary code execution resulting in a loss of integrity.

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2008-02-12 Name : The remote host is missing a Mac OS X update that fixes various security issues.
File : macosx_10_5_2.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2008-02-12 Name : The remote host is missing a Mac OS X update that fixes various security issues.
File : macosx_SecUpd2008-001.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO