Vulnerability Note VU#315856

Apple Mac OS X UserNotificationCenter privilege escalation vulnerability

Overview

Apple's UserNotificationCenter contains a vulnerability that may allow local users to gain elevated privileges.

I. Description

The Apple UserNotificationCenter contains a privilege escalation vulnerability.

This vulnerability occurs because the Apple UserNotificationCenter runs with elevated privileges while operating on input submitted by users with normal privileges.

II. Impact

A user with valid login credentials may be able to run commands or modify system files with elevated privileges.

III. Solution

Apply an update

This issue is addressed in Apple Security Update 2007-002.

Systems Affected

Vendor	Status	Date Notified	Date Updated
Apple Computer, Inc.	Vulnerable	16-Feb-2007

References

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=305102
http://developer.apple.com/documentation/CoreFoundation/Reference/CFUserNotificationRef/Reference/reference.html
http://projects.info-pull.com/moab/MOAB-22-01-2007.html
http://www.cocoadev.com/index.pl?InputManager
http://secunia.com/advisories/23846/
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/22188
http://secunia.com/advisories/24198/

Credit

LMH published this vulnerability on the Month of Apple Bugs website.

This document was written by Ryan Giobbi.

Other Information

Date Public:	2007-01-23
Date First Published:	2007-02-19
Date Last Updated:	2007-02-19
CERT Advisory:
CVE-ID(s):	CVE-2007-0023
NVD-ID(s):	CVE-2007-0023
US-CERT Technical Alerts:
Metric:	1.49
Document Revision:	23

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