National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2006-0848

Overview

The "Open 'safe' files after downloading" option in Safari on Apple Mac OS X allows remote user-assisted attackers to execute arbitrary commands by tricking a user into downloading a __MACOSX folder that contains metadata (resource fork) that invokes the Terminal, which automatically interprets the script using bash, as demonstrated using a ZIP file that contains a script with a safe file extension.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

CVSS Version 2 Metrics:

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US-CERT Technical Alert: TA06-062A

Name: TA06-062A

Hyperlink:http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA06-062A.html

US-CERT Technical Alert: TA06-053A

Name: TA06-053A

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA06-053A.html

US-CERT Vulnerability Note: VU#999708

Name: VU#999708

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/999708

External Source: XF

Name: macosx-zip-command-execution(24808)

Hyperlink:http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/24808

External Source: VUPEN

Name: ADV-2006-0671

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/0671

External Source: BID

Name: 16736

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/16736

External Source: OSVDB

Name: 23510

Hyperlink:http://www.osvdb.org/23510

External Source: MISC

Name: http://www.mathematik.uni-ulm.de/numerik/staff/lehn/macosx.html

Hyperlink:http://www.mathematik.uni-ulm.de/numerik/staff/lehn/macosx.html

External Source: MISC

Name: http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/69862

Hyperlink:http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/69862

External Source: MISC

Name: http://www.frsirt.com/exploits/20060222.safari_safefiles_exec.pm.php

Type: Advisory; Exploit

Hyperlink:http://www.frsirt.com/exploits/20060222.safari_safefiles_exec.pm.php

External Source: SECTRACK

Name: 1015652

Hyperlink:http://securitytracker.com/id?1015652

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 18963

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/18963

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=303382

Hyperlink:http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=303382