Vulnerabilities > CVE-2006-1439 - Information Exposure vulnerability in Apple mac OS X 10.4.6

047910
CVSS 2.1 - LOW
Attack vector
LOCAL
Attack complexity
LOW
Privileges required
NONE
Confidentiality impact
PARTIAL
Integrity impact
NONE
Availability impact
NONE
local
low complexity
apple
CWE-200
nessus
NVD
Published: 2006-05-12
Updated: 2017-07-20

Summary

NSSecureTextField in AppKit in Apple Mac OS X 10.4.6 does not re-enable secure event input under certain circumstances, which could allow other applications in the window session to monitor input characters and keyboard events. This vulnerability is addressed in the following product release: Apple, Mac OS X, 10.4.6 (2006-003)

Vulnerable Configurations

Part Description Count
OS
Apple
1

Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)

Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)

  • Subverting Environment Variable Values
    The attacker directly or indirectly modifies environment variables used by or controlling the target software. The attacker's goal is to cause the target software to deviate from its expected operation in a manner that benefits the attacker.
  • Footprinting
    An attacker engages in probing and exploration activity to identify constituents and properties of the target. Footprinting is a general term to describe a variety of information gathering techniques, often used by attackers in preparation for some attack. It consists of using tools to learn as much as possible about the composition, configuration, and security mechanisms of the targeted application, system or network. Information that might be collected during a footprinting effort could include open ports, applications and their versions, network topology, and similar information. While footprinting is not intended to be damaging (although certain activities, such as network scans, can sometimes cause disruptions to vulnerable applications inadvertently) it may often pave the way for more damaging attacks.
  • Exploiting Trust in Client (aka Make the Client Invisible)
    An attack of this type exploits a programs' vulnerabilities in client/server communication channel authentication and data integrity. It leverages the implicit trust a server places in the client, or more importantly, that which the server believes is the client. An attacker executes this type of attack by placing themselves in the communication channel between client and server such that communication directly to the server is possible where the server believes it is communicating only with a valid client. There are numerous variations of this type of attack.
  • Browser Fingerprinting
    An attacker carefully crafts small snippets of Java Script to efficiently detect the type of browser the potential victim is using. Many web-based attacks need prior knowledge of the web browser including the version of browser to ensure successful exploitation of a vulnerability. Having this knowledge allows an attacker to target the victim with attacks that specifically exploit known or zero day weaknesses in the type and version of the browser used by the victim. Automating this process via Java Script as a part of the same delivery system used to exploit the browser is considered more efficient as the attacker can supply a browser fingerprinting method and integrate it with exploit code, all contained in Java Script and in response to the same web page request by the browser.
  • Session Credential Falsification through Prediction
    This attack targets predictable session ID in order to gain privileges. The attacker can predict the session ID used during a transaction to perform spoofing and session hijacking.

Nessus

NASL familyMacOS X Local Security Checks
NASL idMACOSX_SECUPD2006-003.NASL
descriptionThe remote host is running Apple Mac OS X, but lacks Security Update 2006-003. This security update contains fixes for the following applications : AppKit ImageIO BOM CFNetwork ClamAV (Mac OS X Server only) CoreFoundation CoreGraphics Finder FTPServer Flash Player KeyCHain LaunchServices libcurl Mail MySQL Manager (Mac OS X Server only) Preview QuickDraw QuickTime Streaming Server Ruby Safari
last seen2020-06-01
modified2020-06-02
plugin id21341
published2006-05-12
reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2006-2018 Tenable Network Security, Inc.
sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/21341
titleMac OS X Multiple Vulnerabilities (Security Update 2006-003)
code
#
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#

include("compat.inc");

if (description)
{
 script_id(21341);
 script_version("1.21");
 script_cvs_date("Date: 2018/07/14  1:59:35");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2006-1439", "CVE-2006-1982", "CVE-2006-1983", "CVE-2006-1984", "CVE-2006-1985",
                "CVE-2006-1440", "CVE-2006-1441", "CVE-2006-1442", "CVE-2006-1614", "CVE-2006-1615",
                "CVE-2006-1630", "CVE-2006-1443", "CVE-2006-1444", "CVE-2006-1448", "CVE-2006-1445",
                "CVE-2005-2628", "CVE-2006-0024", "CVE-2006-1552", "CVE-2006-1446", "CVE-2006-1447",
                "CVE-2005-4077", "CVE-2006-1449", "CVE-2006-1450", "CVE-2006-1451", "CVE-2006-1452",
                "CVE-2006-1453", "CVE-2006-1454", "CVE-2006-1455", "CVE-2006-1456", "CVE-2005-2337",
                "CVE-2006-1457");
 script_bugtraq_id(17634, 17951);

 script_name(english:"Mac OS X Multiple Vulnerabilities (Security Update 2006-003)");
 script_summary(english:"Check for Security Update 2006-003");

 script_set_attribute(attribute:"synopsis", value:
"The remote operating system is missing a vendor-supplied patch.");
 script_set_attribute(attribute:"description", value:
"The remote host is running Apple Mac OS X, but lacks
Security Update 2006-003.

This security update contains fixes for the following
applications :

AppKit
ImageIO
BOM
CFNetwork
ClamAV (Mac OS X Server only)
CoreFoundation
CoreGraphics
Finder
FTPServer
Flash Player
KeyCHain
LaunchServices
libcurl
Mail
MySQL Manager (Mac OS X Server only)
Preview
QuickDraw
QuickTime Streaming Server
Ruby
Safari");
 script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=303737");
 script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:
"Mac OS X 10.4 :
http://support.apple.com/downloads/Security_Update_2006_003_Mac_OS_X_10_4_6_Client__PPC_
http://support.apple.com/downloads/Security_Update_2006_003_Mac_OS_X_10_4_6_Client__Intel_

Mac OS X 10.3 :
http://support.apple.com/downloads/Security_Update_2006_003__10_3_9_Client_
http://support.apple.com/downloads/Security_Update_2006_003__10_3_9_Server_");
 script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C");
 script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:POC/RL:OF/RC:C");
 script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"Exploits are available");
 script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"true");

 script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2006/04/19");
 script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2006/05/11");
 script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2006/05/12");

 script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
 script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:apple:mac_os_x");
 script_end_attributes();

 script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
 script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2006-2018 Tenable Network Security, Inc.");
 script_family(english:"MacOS X Local Security Checks");

 script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
 script_require_keys("Host/MacOSX/packages");
 exit(0);
}


packages = get_kb_item("Host/MacOSX/packages");
if ( ! packages ) exit(0);


uname = get_kb_item("Host/uname");
if ( egrep(pattern:"Darwin.* (7\.[0-9]\.|8\.[0-6]\.)", string:uname) )
{
  if (!egrep(pattern:"^SecUpd(Srvr)?(2006-00[3467]|2007-003)", string:packages)) security_hole(0);
}

References