Vulnerabilities > CVE-2015-5824 - Cryptographic Issues vulnerability in Apple mac OS X and Watchos
Attack vector
UNKNOWN Attack complexity
UNKNOWN Privileges required
UNKNOWN Confidentiality impact
UNKNOWN Integrity impact
UNKNOWN Availability impact
UNKNOWN Summary
The NSURL implementation in the CFNetwork SSL component in Apple iOS before 9 does not properly verify X.509 certificates from SSL servers after a certificate change, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof servers and obtain sensitive information via a crafted certificate.
Vulnerable Configurations
Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)
Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)
- Signature Spoofing by Key Recreation An attacker obtains an authoritative or reputable signer's private signature key by exploiting a cryptographic weakness in the signature algorithm or pseudorandom number generation and then uses this key to forge signatures from the original signer to mislead a victim into performing actions that benefit the attacker.
Nessus
| NASL family | MacOS X Local Security Checks |
| NASL id | MACOSX_10_11.NASL |
| description | The remote host is running a version of Mac OS X that is 10.6.8 or later but prior to 10.11. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities in the following components : - Address Book - AirScan - apache_mod_php - Apple Online Store Kit - AppleEvents - Audio - bash - Certificate Trust Policy - CFNetwork Cookies - CFNetwork FTPProtocol - CFNetwork HTTPProtocol - CFNetwork Proxies - CFNetwork SSL - CoreCrypto - CoreText - Dev Tools - Disk Images - dyld - EFI - Finder - Game Center - Heimdal - ICU - Install Framework Legacy - Intel Graphics Driver - IOAudioFamily - IOGraphics - IOHIDFamily - IOStorageFamily - Kernel - libc - libpthread - libxpc - Login Window - lukemftpd - Mail - Multipeer Connectivity - NetworkExtension - Notes - OpenSSH - OpenSSL - procmail - remote_cmds - removefile - Ruby - Safari - Safari Downloads - Safari Extensions - Safari Safe Browsing - Security - SMB - SQLite - Telephony - Terminal - tidy - Time Machine - WebKit - WebKit CSS - WebKit JavaScript Bindings - WebKit Page Loading - WebKit Plug-ins Note that successful exploitation of the most serious issues can result in arbitrary code execution. |
| last seen | 2020-06-01 |
| modified | 2020-06-02 |
| plugin id | 86270 |
| published | 2015-10-05 |
| reporter | This script is Copyright (C) 2015-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. |
| source | https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/86270 |
| title | Mac OS X < 10.11 Multiple Vulnerabilities (GHOST) |
References
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2015/Sep/msg00001.html
- https://support.apple.com/HT205212
- https://support.apple.com/HT205267
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2015/Sep/msg00008.html
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2015/Sep/msg00005.html
- https://support.apple.com/HT205213
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/76764
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1033609