Vulnerabilities > CVE-2008-4820 - Information Exposure vulnerability in Adobe Flash Player

047910
CVSS 7.1 - HIGH
Attack vector
NETWORK
Attack complexity
MEDIUM
Privileges required
NONE
Confidentiality impact
COMPLETE
Integrity impact
NONE
Availability impact
NONE
network
microsoft
adobe
CWE-200
nessus
NVD
Published: 2008-11-10
Updated: 2018-10-30

Summary

Unspecified vulnerability in the Flash Player ActiveX control in Adobe Flash Player 9.0.124.0 and earlier on Windows allows attackers to obtain sensitive information via unknown vectors.

Vulnerable Configurations

Part Description Count
OS
Microsoft
1
Application
Adobe
59

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_10_5_6.NASL
    descriptionThe remote host is running a version of Mac OS X 10.5.x that is prior to 10.5.6. Mac OS X 10.5.6 contains security fixes for the following products : - ATS - BOM - CoreGraphics - CoreServices - CoreTypes - Flash Player Plug-in - Kernel - Libsystem - Managed Client - network_cmds - Podcast Producer - UDF
    last seen2020-06-01
    modified2020-06-02
    plugin id35111
    published2008-12-16
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2008-2018 Tenable Network Security, Inc.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/35111
    titleMac OS X 10.5.x < 10.5.6 Multiple Vulnerabilities
    code
    #
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#


if (!defined_func("bn_random")) exit(0);
if (NASL_LEVEL < 3004) exit(0);



include("compat.inc");

if (description)
{
  script_id(35111);
  script_version("1.21");
  script_cvs_date("Date: 2018/07/14  1:59:35");

  script_cve_id(
    "CVE-2008-1391", 
    "CVE-2008-3170", 
    "CVE-2008-3623", 
    "CVE-2008-4217", 
    "CVE-2008-4218",
    "CVE-2008-4219", 
    "CVE-2008-4220", 
    "CVE-2008-4221", 
    "CVE-2008-4222", 
    "CVE-2008-4223",
    "CVE-2008-4224", 
    "CVE-2008-4234", 
    "CVE-2008-4236", 
    "CVE-2008-4237", 
    "CVE-2008-4818",
    "CVE-2008-4819", 
    "CVE-2008-4820", 
    "CVE-2008-4821", 
    "CVE-2008-4822", 
    "CVE-2008-4823",
    "CVE-2008-4824"
  );
  script_bugtraq_id(
    28479, 
    30192, 
    32129, 
    32291, 
    32870, 
    32872, 
    32873, 
    32874, 
    32875, 
    32876, 
    32877, 
    32879, 
    32880, 
    32881
  );

  script_name(english:"Mac OS X 10.5.x < 10.5.6 Multiple Vulnerabilities");
  script_summary(english:"Check the version of Mac OS X");

  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.x that is prior
to 10.5.6. 

Mac OS X 10.5.6 contains security fixes for the following products :

  - ATS
  - BOM
  - CoreGraphics
  - CoreServices
  - CoreTypes
  - Flash Player Plug-in
  - Kernel
  - Libsystem
  - Managed Client
  - network_cmds
  - Podcast Producer
  - UDF" );
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3338" );
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2008/Dec/msg00000.html" );
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:
"Upgrade to Mac OS X 10.5.6 or later." );
  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_cwe_id(20, 79, 119, 189, 200, 264, 287, 399);

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value: "2008/12/16");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value: "2008/12/15");
  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) 2008-2018 Tenable Network Security, Inc.");
  script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl", "os_fingerprint.nasl");
  exit(0);
}


os = get_kb_item("Host/MacOSX/Version");
if (!os) os = get_kb_item("Host/OS");
if (!os) exit(0);

if (ereg(pattern:"Mac OS X 10\.5\.[0-5]([^0-9]|$)", string:os)) 
  security_hole(0);
  • NASL familyWindows
    NASL idADOBE_AIR_APSB08-23.NASL
    descriptionAccording to its version number, an instance of Adobe AIR on the remote Windows host is 1.1 or earlier. Such versions are potentially affected by several vulnerabilities (APSB08-23 / APSB08-22 / APSB08-20 / APSB08-18): - A potential port-scanning issue. (CVE-2007-4324) - Possible privilege escalation attacks against web servers hosting Flash content and cross-domain policy files. (CVE-2007-6243) - Potential Clipboard attacks. (CVE-2008-3873) - FileReference upload and download APIs that don
    last seen2020-06-01
    modified2020-06-02
    plugin id34815
    published2008-11-18
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2008-2018 Tenable Network Security, Inc.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/34815
    titleAdobe AIR < 1.5 Multiple Vulnerabilities (APSB08-23)
  • NASL familyWindows
    NASL idFLASH_PLAYER_APSB08-20.NASL
    descriptionAccording to its version number, an instance of Flash Player on the remote Windows host is 9.0.124.0 or earlier. Such versions are potentially affected by several vulnerabilities : - A potential port-scanning issue. (CVE-2007-4324) - Possible privilege escalation attacks against web servers hosting Flash content and cross-domain policy files. (CVE-2007-6243) - Potential Clipboard attacks. (CVE-2008-3873) - FileReference upload and download APIs that don
    last seen2020-06-01
    modified2020-06-02
    plugin id34741
    published2008-11-11
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2008-2018 Tenable Network Security, Inc.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/34741
    titleFlash Player < 9.0.151.0 / 10.0.12.36 Multiple Vulnerabilities (APSB08-18 / APSB08-20 / APSB08-22)
  • NASL familyMacOS X Local Security Checks
    NASL idMACOSX_SECUPD2008-008.NASL
    descriptionThe remote host is running a version of Mac OS X 10.4 that does not have Security Update 2008-008 applied. This security update contains fixes for the following products : - BOM - CoreGraphics - CoreServices - Flash Player Plug-in - Libsystem - network_cmds - UDF
    last seen2020-06-01
    modified2020-06-02
    plugin id35110
    published2008-12-16
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2008-2018 Tenable Network Security, Inc.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/35110
    titleMac OS X Multiple Vulnerabilities (Security Update 2008-008)

References