Vulnerabilities > CVE-2007-2401 - Cross-site Scripting vulnerability in Apple mac OS X and mac OS X Server

047910
CVSS 4.3 - MEDIUM
Attack vector
NETWORK
Attack complexity
MEDIUM
Privileges required
NONE
Confidentiality impact
NONE
Integrity impact
PARTIAL
Availability impact
NONE
network
apple
CWE-79
nessus
exploit available

Summary

CRLF injection vulnerability in WebCore in Apple Mac OS X 10.3.9, 10.4.9 and later, and iPhone before 1.0.1, allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary HTTP headers via LF characters in an XMLHttpRequest request, which are not filtered when serializing headers via the setRequestHeader function. NOTE: this issue can be leveraged for cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks.

Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)

  • Cross Site Scripting through Log Files
    An attacker may leverage a system weakness where logs are susceptible to log injection to insert scripts into the system's logs. If these logs are later viewed by an administrator through a thin administrative interface and the log data is not properly HTML encoded before being written to the page, the attackers' scripts stored in the log will be executed in the administrative interface with potentially serious consequences. This attack pattern is really a combination of two other attack patterns: log injection and stored cross site scripting.
  • Embedding Scripts in Non-Script Elements
    This attack is a form of Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) where malicious scripts are embedded in elements that are not expected to host scripts such as image tags (<img>), comments in XML documents (< !-CDATA->), etc. These tags may not be subject to the same input validation, output validation, and other content filtering and checking routines, so this can create an opportunity for an attacker to tunnel through the application's elements and launch a XSS attack through other elements. As with all remote attacks, it is important to differentiate the ability to launch an attack (such as probing an internal network for unpatched servers) and the ability of the remote attacker to collect and interpret the output of said attack.
  • Embedding Scripts within Scripts
    An attack of this type exploits a programs' vulnerabilities that are brought on by allowing remote hosts to execute scripts. The attacker leverages this capability to execute scripts to execute his/her own script by embedding it within other scripts that the target software is likely to execute. The attacker must have the ability to inject script into script that is likely to be executed. If this is done, then the attacker can potentially launch a variety of probes and attacks against the web server's local environment, in many cases the so-called DMZ, back end resources the web server can communicate with, and other hosts. With the proliferation of intermediaries, such as Web App Firewalls, network devices, and even printers having JVMs and Web servers, there are many locales where an attacker can inject malicious scripts. Since this attack pattern defines scripts within scripts, there are likely privileges to execute said attack on the host. Of course, these attacks are not solely limited to the server side, client side scripts like Ajax and client side JavaScript can contain malicious scripts as well. In general all that is required is for there to be sufficient privileges to execute a script, but not protected against writing.
  • Cross-Site Scripting in Error Pages
    An attacker distributes a link (or possibly some other query structure) with a request to a third party web server that is malformed and also contains a block of exploit code in order to have the exploit become live code in the resulting error page. When the third party web server receives the crafted request and notes the error it then creates an error message that echoes the malformed message, including the exploit. Doing this converts the exploit portion of the message into to valid language elements that are executed by the viewing browser. When a victim executes the query provided by the attacker the infected error message error message is returned including the exploit code which then runs in the victim's browser. XSS can result in execution of code as well as data leakage (e.g. session cookies can be sent to the attacker). This type of attack is especially dangerous since the exploit appears to come from the third party web server, who the victim may trust and hence be more vulnerable to deception.
  • Cross-Site Scripting Using Alternate Syntax
    The attacker uses alternate forms of keywords or commands that result in the same action as the primary form but which may not be caught by filters. For example, many keywords are processed in a case insensitive manner. If the site's web filtering algorithm does not convert all tags into a consistent case before the comparison with forbidden keywords it is possible to bypass filters (e.g., incomplete black lists) by using an alternate case structure. For example, the "script" tag using the alternate forms of "Script" or "ScRiPt" may bypass filters where "script" is the only form tested. Other variants using different syntax representations are also possible as well as using pollution meta-characters or entities that are eventually ignored by the rendering engine. The attack can result in the execution of otherwise prohibited functionality.

Exploit-Db

descriptionApple WebCore XMLHTTPRequest Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability. CVE-2007-2401. Remote exploit for osx platform
idEDB-ID:30228
last seen2016-02-03
modified2007-06-22
published2007-06-22
reporterRichard Moore
sourcehttps://www.exploit-db.com/download/30228/
titleApple WebCore XMLHTTPRequest Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

Nessus

NASL familyMacOS X Local Security Checks
NASL idMACOSX_SECUPD2007-006.NASL
descriptionThe remote host is running a version of Mac OS X 10.4 or 10.3 which does not have the security update 2007-006 applied. This update fixes security flaws in WebKit and WebCore which might allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code on the remote host. To execute arbitrary code, an attacker would need to lure a user of the remote host into visiting a malicious website containing a specially malformed html file which would trigger a buffer overflow.
last seen2020-06-01
modified2020-06-02
plugin id25566
published2007-06-25
reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2007-2018 Tenable Network Security, Inc.
sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/25566
titleMac OS X Multiple Vulnerabilities (Security Update 2007-006)
code
#
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#

if ( ! defined_func("bn_random") ) exit(0);


include("compat.inc");

if(description)
{
 script_id(25566);
 script_version ("1.14");
 script_cve_id("CVE-2007-2401", "CVE-2007-2399");
 script_bugtraq_id(24597, 24598);

 script_name(english:"Mac OS X Multiple Vulnerabilities (Security Update 2007-006)");
 
 script_set_attribute(attribute:"synopsis", value:
"The remote host is missing a Mac OS X update which fixes a security
issue." );
 script_set_attribute(attribute:"description", value:
"The remote host is running a version of Mac OS X 10.4 or 10.3 which
does not have the security update 2007-006 applied. 

This update fixes security flaws in WebKit and WebCore which might
allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code on the remote host. 

To execute arbitrary code, an attacker would need to lure a user of
the remote host into visiting a malicious website containing a
specially malformed html file which would trigger a buffer overflow." );
 script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:
"Install the security update 2007-006 :

http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/securityupdate2007006universal.html" );
 script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/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_cwe_id(79);
 script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=305759" );

 script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value: "2007/06/25");
 script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value: "2007/06/21");
 script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value: "2007/06/21");
 script_cvs_date("Date: 2018/07/14  1:59:35");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:apple:mac_os_x");
script_end_attributes();

 script_summary(english:"Check for the presence of the SecUpdate 2007-006");
 script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
 script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2007-2018 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\.[0-9]\.|8\.10\.)", string:uname) )
{
  if (!egrep(pattern:"^SecUpd(Srvr)?(2007-00[6-9]|200[89]-|20[1-9][0-9]-)", string:packages)) 
    security_hole(0);
}

Seebug

bulletinFamilyexploit
descriptionCVE(CAN) ID: CVE-2007-2399,CVE-2007-2400,CVE-2007-2401,CVE-2007-3742,CVE-2007-3944 iPhone是蒴果公司开发的智能手机。 iPhone的实现上存在多个安全漏洞,可导致恶意操作浏览器或信息泄露。 具体漏洞条目如下: * CVE-2007-2400 Safari处理JavsScript的实现上存在漏洞,远程攻击者可能利用此漏洞绕过同源策略非授权操作其他网页。 * CVE-2007-3944 Safari的JavaScript引擎使用的PCRE库实现上存在堆溢出漏洞,远程攻击者可能利用此漏洞通过诱使用户访问恶意网页控制用户系统。 * CVE-2007-2401 WebCore软件包的XMLHttpRequest处理HTTP请求头时存在漏洞,导致跨站脚本执行。 * CVE-2007-3742 WebKit软件包实现上存在漏洞,可能导致浏览器中的域名欺骗。 * CVE-2007-2399 WebKit软件包在生成网页时处理无效的类型转换存在漏洞,远程攻击者可能利用此漏洞导致软件崩溃或执行任意指令。 Apple iPhone 1.0.1 目前厂商已经发布了升级补丁以修复这个安全问题,请到厂商的主页下载: <a href="http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=306173" target="_blank">http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=306173</a>
idSSV:2063
last seen2017-11-19
modified2007-08-02
published2007-08-02
reporterRoot
titleApple iPhone多个安全漏洞