Vulnerabilities > CVE-2018-4399 - Improper Input Validation vulnerability in Apple products

047910
CVSS 5.5 - MEDIUM
Attack vector
LOCAL
Attack complexity
LOW
Privileges required
NONE
Confidentiality impact
HIGH
Integrity impact
NONE
Availability impact
NONE
local
low complexity
apple
CWE-20
nessus
NVD
Published: 2019-04-03
Updated: 2024-11-21

Summary

An access issue existed with privileged API calls. This issue was addressed with additional restrictions. This issue affected versions prior to iOS 12, macOS Mojave 10.14, tvOS 12, watchOS 5.

Vulnerable Configurations

Part Description Count
OS
Apple
423

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.

Nessus

  • NASL familyMacOS X Local Security Checks
    NASL idMACOSX_SECUPD_10_13_6_2018-002.NASL
    descriptionThe remote host is running macOS 10.13.6 and is missing a security update. It is therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities affecting the following components : - fpserver - AppleGraphicsControl - APR - ATS - CFNetwork - CoreAnimation - CoreCrypto - CoreFoundation - CUPS - Dictionary - dyld - EFI - Foundation - Grand Central Dispatch - Heimdal - Hypervisor - ICU - Intel Graphics Driver - IOGraphics - IOHIDFamily - IOKit - IOUserEthernet - IPSec - Kernel - Login Window - mDNSOffloadUserClient - MediaRemote - Microcode - NetworkExtension - Security - Spotlight - Symptom Framework - WiFi
    last seen2020-03-18
    modified2018-10-31
    plugin id118575
    published2018-10-31
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2018-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/118575
    titlemacOS 10.13.6 Multiple Vulnerabilities (Security Update 2018-002)
    code
    #
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#

include("compat.inc");

if (description)
{
  script_id(118575);
  script_version("1.7");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2020/03/13");

  script_cve_id(
    "CVE-2017-12613",
    "CVE-2017-12618",
    "CVE-2018-3639",
    "CVE-2018-3640",
    "CVE-2018-3646",
    "CVE-2018-4126",
    "CVE-2018-4153",
    "CVE-2018-4203",
    "CVE-2018-4295",
    "CVE-2018-4304",
    "CVE-2018-4308",
    "CVE-2018-4310",
    "CVE-2018-4326",
    "CVE-2018-4331",
    "CVE-2018-4340",
    "CVE-2018-4341",
    "CVE-2018-4342",
    "CVE-2018-4346",
    "CVE-2018-4348",
    "CVE-2018-4350",
    "CVE-2018-4354",
    "CVE-2018-4368",
    "CVE-2018-4369",
    "CVE-2018-4371",
    "CVE-2018-4393",
    "CVE-2018-4394",
    "CVE-2018-4395",
    "CVE-2018-4396",
    "CVE-2018-4398",
    "CVE-2018-4399",
    "CVE-2018-4400",
    "CVE-2018-4401",
    "CVE-2018-4402",
    "CVE-2018-4406",
    "CVE-2018-4407",
    "CVE-2018-4408",
    "CVE-2018-4410",
    "CVE-2018-4411",
    "CVE-2018-4412",
    "CVE-2018-4413",
    "CVE-2018-4415",
    "CVE-2018-4417",
    "CVE-2018-4418",
    "CVE-2018-4419",
    "CVE-2018-4420",
    "CVE-2018-4422",
    "CVE-2018-4423",
    "CVE-2018-4425",
    "CVE-2018-4426"
  );
  script_xref(name:"APPLE-SA", value:"APPLE-SA-2018-10-30-2");

  script_name(english:"macOS 10.13.6 Multiple Vulnerabilities (Security Update 2018-002)");
  script_summary(english:"Checks for the presence of Security Update 2018-002 (APPLE-SA-2018-10-30-2).");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"synopsis", value:
"The remote host is missing a macOS security update that fixes
multiple vulnerabilities.");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"description", value:
"The remote host is running macOS 10.13.6 and is missing a security
update. It is therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities
affecting the following components :

  - fpserver
  - AppleGraphicsControl
  - APR
  - ATS
  - CFNetwork
  - CoreAnimation
  - CoreCrypto
  - CoreFoundation
  - CUPS
  - Dictionary
  - dyld
  - EFI
  - Foundation
  - Grand Central Dispatch
  - Heimdal
  - Hypervisor
  - ICU
  - Intel Graphics Driver
  - IOGraphics
  - IOHIDFamily
  - IOKit
  - IOUserEthernet
  - IPSec
  - Kernel
  - Login Window
  - mDNSOffloadUserClient
  - MediaRemote
  - Microcode
  - NetworkExtension
  - Security
  - Spotlight
  - Symptom Framework
  - WiFi");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT209193");
  # https://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2018/Oct/msg00003.html
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"http://www.nessus.org/u?f0681c90");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:
"Install Security Update 2018-002 or later for 10.13.6.");
  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_cvss3_base_vector("CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H");
  script_set_cvss3_temporal_vector("CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cvss_score_source", value:"CVE-2018-4331");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"Exploits are available");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"true");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2018/10/30");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2018/10/30");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2018/10/31");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:apple:mac_os_x");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:apple:macos");
  script_end_attributes();

  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_family(english:"MacOS X Local Security Checks");

  script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2018-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");

  script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
  script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/MacOSX/Version", "Host/MacOSX/packages/boms");

  exit(0);
}
include('lists.inc');
include('vcf.inc');
include('vcf_extras_apple.inc');

app_info = vcf::apple::macos::get_app_info();

constraints = [
  { 'min_version' : '10.13', 'max_version' : '10.13.6', 'fixed_build': '17G3025', 'fixed_display' : '10.13.6 Security Update 2018-002' }
];

vcf::apple::macos::check_version_and_report(app_info:app_info, constraints:constraints, severity:SECURITY_HOLE);
  • NASL familyMacOS X Local Security Checks
    NASL idMACOS_10_14.NASL
    descriptionThe remote host is running a version of Mac OS X that is prior to 10.13.6 or is not macOS 10.14. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities in the following components : - afpserver - AppleGraphicsControl - Application Firewall - App Store - APR - ATS - Auto Unlock - Bluetooth - CFNetwork - CoreFoundation - CoreText - Crash Reporter - CUPS - Dictionary - Grand Central Dispatch - Heimdal - Hypervisor - iBooks - Intel Graphics Driver - IOHIDFamily - IOKit - IOUserEthernet - Kernel - LibreSSL - Login Window - mDNSOffloadUserClient - MediaRemote - Microcode - Security - Spotlight - Symptom Framework - Text - Wi-Fi Note that successful exploitation of the most serious issues can result in arbitrary code execution.
    last seen2020-06-01
    modified2020-06-02
    plugin id118178
    published2018-10-18
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2018-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/118178
    titlemacOS < 10.14 Multiple Vulnerabilities

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