Vulnerabilities > CVE-2016-1757 - Race Condition vulnerability in Apple Iphone OS
Attack vector
LOCAL Attack complexity
HIGH Privileges required
NONE Confidentiality impact
HIGH Integrity impact
HIGH Availability impact
HIGH Summary
Race condition in the kernel in Apple iOS before 9.3 and OS X before 10.11.4 allows attackers to execute arbitrary code in a privileged context via a crafted app.
Vulnerable Configurations
Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)
Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)
- Leveraging Race Conditions This attack targets a race condition occurring when multiple processes access and manipulate the same resource concurrently and the outcome of the execution depends on the particular order in which the access takes place. The attacker can leverage a race condition by "running the race", modifying the resource and modifying the normal execution flow. For instance a race condition can occur while accessing a file, the attacker can trick the system by replacing the original file with his version and cause the system to read the malicious file.
- Leveraging Time-of-Check and Time-of-Use (TOCTOU) Race Conditions This attack targets a race condition occurring between the time of check (state) for a resource and the time of use of a resource. The typical example is the file access. The attacker can leverage a file access race condition by "running the race", meaning that he would modify the resource between the first time the target program accesses the file and the time the target program uses the file. During that period of time, the attacker could do something such as replace the file and cause an escalation of privilege.
Exploit-Db
description OS X / iOS Suid Binary Logic Error Kernel Code Execution. CVE-2016-1757. Local exploits for multiple platform file exploits/multiple/local/39595.txt id EDB-ID:39595 last seen 2016-03-23 modified 2016-03-23 platform multiple port published 2016-03-23 reporter Google Security Research source https://www.exploit-db.com/download/39595/ title OS X / iOS Suid Binary Logic Error Kernel Code Execution type local description Mach Race OS X Local Privilege Escalation Exploit. CVE-2016-1757. Local exploit for osx platform file exploits/osx/local/39741.txt id EDB-ID:39741 last seen 2016-04-27 modified 2016-04-27 platform osx port published 2016-04-27 reporter fG! source https://www.exploit-db.com/download/39741/ title Mach Race OS X Local Privilege Escalation Exploit type local
Nessus
| NASL family | MacOS X Local Security Checks |
| NASL id | MACOSX_10_11_4.NASL |
| description | The remote host is running a version of Mac OS X that is 10.11.x prior to 10.11.4. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities in the following components : - apache_mod_php - AppleRAID - AppleUSBNetworking - Bluetooth - Carbon - dyld - FontParser - HTTPProtocol - Intel Graphics Driver - IOFireWireFamily - IOGraphics - IOHIDFamily - IOUSBFamily - Kernel - libxml2 - Messages - NVIDIA Graphics Drivers - OpenSSH - OpenSSL - Python - QuickTime - Reminders - Ruby - Security - Tcl - TrueTypeScaler - Wi-Fi 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 | 90096 |
| published | 2016-03-22 |
| reporter | This script is Copyright (C) 2016-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. |
| source | https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/90096 |
| title | Mac OS X 10.11.x < 10.11.4 Multiple Vulnerabilities |
| code | |
The Hacker News
| id | THN:C3AFFC6B0CE7522BE2D27FFC61B25B88 |
| last seen | 2018-01-27 |
| modified | 2016-03-25 |
| published | 2016-03-24 |
| reporter | Swati Khandelwal |
| source | https://thehackernews.com/2016/03/system-integrity-protection.html |
| title | Mac OS X Zero-Day Exploit Can Bypass Apple's Latest Protection Feature |
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References
- https://support.apple.com/HT206166
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2016/Mar/msg00000.html
- https://support.apple.com/HT206167
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2016/Mar/msg00004.html
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/39741/
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1035353
- https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=676
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/39595/