Vulnerabilities > CVE-2007-6165 - Improper Input Validation vulnerability in Apple mac OS X 10.5

047910
CVSS 0.0 - NONE
Attack vector
UNKNOWN
Attack complexity
UNKNOWN
Privileges required
UNKNOWN
Confidentiality impact
UNKNOWN
Integrity impact
UNKNOWN
Availability impact
UNKNOWN
apple
CWE-20
nessus
exploit available
metasploit
NVD
Published: 2007-11-29
Updated: 2024-11-21

Summary

Mail in Apple Mac OS X Leopard (10.5.1) allows user-assisted remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via an AppleDouble attachment containing an apparently-safe file type and script in a resource fork, which does not warn the user that a separate program is going to be executed. NOTE: this is a regression error related to CVE-2006-0395.

Vulnerable Configurations

Part Description Count
OS
Apple
1

Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)

Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)

  • Buffer Overflow via Environment Variables
    This attack pattern involves causing a buffer overflow through manipulation of environment variables. Once the attacker finds that they can modify an environment variable, they may try to overflow associated buffers. This attack leverages implicit trust often placed in environment variables.
  • Server Side Include (SSI) Injection
    An attacker can use Server Side Include (SSI) Injection to send code to a web application that then gets executed by the web server. Doing so enables the attacker to achieve similar results to Cross Site Scripting, viz., arbitrary code execution and information disclosure, albeit on a more limited scale, since the SSI directives are nowhere near as powerful as a full-fledged scripting language. Nonetheless, the attacker can conveniently gain access to sensitive files, such as password files, and execute shell commands.
  • Cross Zone Scripting
    An attacker is able to cause a victim to load content into their web-browser that bypasses security zone controls and gain access to increased privileges to execute scripting code or other web objects such as unsigned ActiveX controls or applets. This is a privilege elevation attack targeted at zone-based web-browser security. In a zone-based model, pages belong to one of a set of zones corresponding to the level of privilege assigned to that page. Pages in an untrusted zone would have a lesser level of access to the system and/or be restricted in the types of executable content it was allowed to invoke. In a cross-zone scripting attack, a page that should be assigned to a less privileged zone is granted the privileges of a more trusted zone. This can be accomplished by exploiting bugs in the browser, exploiting incorrect configuration in the zone controls, through a cross-site scripting attack that causes the attackers' content to be treated as coming from a more trusted page, or by leveraging some piece of system functionality that is accessible from both the trusted and less trusted zone. This attack differs from "Restful Privilege Escalation" in that the latter correlates to the inadequate securing of RESTful access methods (such as HTTP DELETE) on the server, while cross-zone scripting attacks the concept of security zones as implemented by a browser.
  • 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.
  • Command Line Execution through SQL Injection
    An attacker uses standard SQL injection methods to inject data into the command line for execution. This could be done directly through misuse of directives such as MSSQL_xp_cmdshell or indirectly through injection of data into the database that would be interpreted as shell commands. Sometime later, an unscrupulous backend application (or could be part of the functionality of the same application) fetches the injected data stored in the database and uses this data as command line arguments without performing proper validation. The malicious data escapes that data plane by spawning new commands to be executed on the host.

Exploit-Db

  • descriptionApple Mac OS X 10.5.x Mail Arbitrary Code Execution Vulnerability. CVE-2007-6165. Remote exploit for osx platform
    idEDB-ID:30781
    last seen2016-02-03
    modified2007-11-20
    published2007-11-20
    reporterheise Security
    sourcehttps://www.exploit-db.com/download/30781/
    titleApple Mac OS X 10.5.x Mail Arbitrary Code Execution Vulnerability
  • descriptionMail.app Image Attachment Command Execution. CVE-2006-0395,CVE-2007-6165. Remote exploits for multiple platform
    idEDB-ID:16870
    last seen2016-02-02
    modified2011-03-05
    published2011-03-05
    reportermetasploit
    sourcehttps://www.exploit-db.com/download/16870/
    titleMail.app Image Attachment Command Execution

Metasploit

descriptionThis module exploits a command execution vulnerability in the Mail.app application shipped with Mac OS X 10.5.0. This flaw was patched in 10.4 in March of 2007, but reintroduced into the final release of 10.5.
idMSF:EXPLOIT/OSX/EMAIL/MAILAPP_IMAGE_EXEC
last seen2020-01-08
modified2017-07-24
published2007-11-26
references
reporterRapid7
sourcehttps://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/blob/master//modules/exploits/osx/email/mailapp_image_exec.rb
titleMail.app Image Attachment Command Execution

Nessus

NASL familyMacOS X Local Security Checks
NASL idMACOSX_SECUPD2007-009.NASL
descriptionThe remote host is running a version of Mac OS X 10.5 or 10.4 that does not have Security Update 2007-009 applied. This update contains several security fixes for a large number of programs.
last seen2020-06-01
modified2020-06-02
plugin id29723
published2007-12-18
reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2007-2018 Tenable Network Security, Inc.
sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/29723
titleMac OS X Multiple Vulnerabilities (Security Update 2007-009)
code
#
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#

include("compat.inc");

if (description)
{
  script_id(29723);
  script_version("1.27");
  script_cvs_date("Date: 2018/07/14  1:59:35");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2006-0024", "CVE-2007-1218", "CVE-2007-1659", "CVE-2007-1660", "CVE-2007-1661",
                "CVE-2007-1662", "CVE-2007-3798", "CVE-2007-3876", "CVE-2007-4131", "CVE-2007-4351",
                "CVE-2007-4572", "CVE-2007-4708", "CVE-2007-4709", "CVE-2007-4710", "CVE-2007-4766",
                "CVE-2007-4767", "CVE-2007-4768", "CVE-2007-4965", "CVE-2007-5116", "CVE-2007-5379",
                "CVE-2007-5380", "CVE-2007-5398", "CVE-2007-5476", "CVE-2007-5770", "CVE-2007-5847",
                "CVE-2007-5848", "CVE-2007-5849", "CVE-2007-5850", "CVE-2007-5851", "CVE-2007-5853",
                "CVE-2007-5854", "CVE-2007-5855", "CVE-2007-5856", "CVE-2007-5857", "CVE-2007-5858",
                "CVE-2007-5859", "CVE-2007-5860", "CVE-2007-5861", "CVE-2007-5863", "CVE-2007-6077",
                "CVE-2007-6165");
  script_bugtraq_id(17106, 22772, 24965, 25417, 25696, 26096, 26268, 26274, 26346,
                    26350, 26421, 26454, 26455, 26510, 26598, 26908, 26910, 26926);

  script_name(english:"Mac OS X Multiple Vulnerabilities (Security Update 2007-009)");
  script_summary(english:"Check for the presence of Security Update 2007-009");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"synopsis", value:
"The remote host is missing a Mac OS X update that fixes various
security issues.");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"description", value:
"The remote host is running a version of Mac OS X 10.5 or 10.4 that does
not have Security Update 2007-009 applied. 

This update contains several security fixes for a large number of
programs.");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=307179");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2007/Dec/msg00002.html");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"http://www.securityfocus.com/advisories/13649");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:"Install Security Update 2007-009.");
  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:F/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:"metasploit_name", value:'Mail.app Image Attachment Command Execution');
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_framework_metasploit", value:"true");
  script_cwe_id(16, 20, 22, 79, 119, 134, 189, 200, 264, 287, 310, 362, 399);

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2006/03/15");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2007/10/17");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2007/12/18");

  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_family(english:"MacOS X Local Security Checks");
  script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2007-2018 Tenable Network Security, Inc.");

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


uname = get_kb_item("Host/uname");
if ( ! uname ) exit(0);
if ( egrep(pattern:"Darwin.* (8\.[0-9]\.|8\.1[01]\.)", string:uname) )
{
  packages = get_kb_item("Host/MacOSX/packages");
  if ( ! packages ) exit(0);
  if (!egrep(pattern:"^SecUpd(Srvr)?(2007-009|200[89]-|20[1-9][0-9]-)", string:packages))
    security_hole(0);
}
else if ( egrep(pattern:"Darwin.* (9\.[01]\.)", string:uname) )
{
 packages = get_kb_item("Host/MacOSX/packages/boms");
 if ( ! packages ) exit(0);
 if ( !egrep(pattern:"^com\.apple\.pkg\.update\.security\.2007\.009\.bom", string:packages) )
	security_hole(0);
}

Packetstorm

data sourcehttps://packetstormsecurity.com/files/download/82307/mailapp_image_exec.rb.txt
idPACKETSTORM:82307
last seen2016-12-05
published2009-10-28
reporterH D Moore
sourcehttps://packetstormsecurity.com/files/82307/Mail.app-Image-Attachment-Command-Execution.html
titleMail.app Image Attachment Command Execution

References