7.5 High
CVSS2
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
0.643 Medium
EPSS
Percentile
97.9%
Apple Terminal on Mac OS X fails to sanitize x-man-page
URIs, allowing an attacker to execute arbitrary commands.
Mac OS X 10.3 includes a URI handler called x-man-page
. It causes Apple Terminal to display a man
page by using a URI of this form: x-man-page://command
. Applications such as Safari can link to x-man-page
resources.
Apple Terminal fails to sanitize input to the x-man-page
URI handler. Escape characters embedded in the x-man-page
URI could cause commands to be executed in the Terminal session.
By convincing a user to view an HTML document (e.g., a web page or HTML email message), an attacker could execute arbitrary commands or code with the privileges of the user. The attacker could take any action as the user. If the user has administrative privileges, the attacker could take complete control of the user’s system.
Apply a patch
Apple advises all users to apply Apple Security Update 2005-005, as it fixes this flaw and other critical security flaws.
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Notified: March 01, 2005 Updated: May 06, 2005
Affected
This is addressed in Security Update 2005-005. Further information is available at:
<http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=301528>
The vendor has not provided us with any further information regarding this vulnerability.
US-CERT has no additional comments at this time.
If you have feedback, comments, or additional information about this vulnerability, please send us [email](<mailto:[email protected]?Subject=VU%23356070 Feedback>).
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Thanks to David Remahl for reporting this vulnerability.
This document was written by Will Dormann.
CVE IDs: | CVE-2005-1342 |
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Severity Metric: | 22.31 Date Public: |