Vulnerabilities > CVE-2015-5887 - Code vulnerability in Apple mac OS X
Attack vector
NETWORK Attack complexity
LOW Privileges required
NONE Confidentiality impact
COMPLETE Integrity impact
COMPLETE Availability impact
COMPLETE Summary
The TLS Handshake Protocol implementation in Secure Transport in Apple OS X before 10.11 accepts a Certificate Request message within a session in which no Server Key Exchange message has been sent, which allows remote attackers to have an unspecified impact via crafted TLS data.
Vulnerable Configurations
Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)
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) |