National Cyber Awareness System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2008-7303
Original release date:11/15/2011
Last revised:11/21/2011
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
The nonet and nointernet sandbox profiles in Apple Mac OS X 10.5.x do not propagate restrictions to all created processes, which allows remote attackers to access network resources via a crafted application, as demonstrated by use of launchctl to trigger the launchd daemon's execution of a script file, a related issue to CVE-2011-1516.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
10.0
Exploitability Subscore:
4.9
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable
Access Complexity: High
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows unauthorized disclosure of information; Allows unauthorized modification; Allows disruption of service
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External Source: MISC
Name: https://www.blackhat.com/presentations/bh-jp-08/bh-jp-08-Miller/BlackHat-Japan-08-Miller-Hacking-OSX.pdf
External Source: MISC
Name: http://www.coresecurity.com/content/apple-osx-sandbox-bypass
Technical Details
- Permissions, Privileges, and Access Control (CWE-264)