Vulnerability Note VU#315856

Overview

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

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.

Impact

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

Solution

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

Systems Affected (Learn More)

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

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CVSS Metrics (Learn More)

Group	Score	Vector
Base	N/A	N/A
Temporal	N/A	N/A
Environmental	N/A	N/A

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

• CVE IDs: CVE-2007-0023
• Date Public: 23 Jan 2007
• Date First Published: 19 Feb 2007
• Date Last Updated: 19 Feb 2007
• Severity Metric: 1.49
• Document Revision: 23