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Apple Mac OS X Predefined Sandbox Profiles Security Bypass Vulnerability

Information

Severity

Severity

High

Family

Family

Mac OS X Local Security Checks

CVSSv2 Base

CVSSv2 Base

7.6

CVSSv2 Vector

CVSSv2 Vector

AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Solution Type

Solution Type

Vendor Wont Fix

Created

Created

11 years ago

Modified

Modified

4 years ago

Summary

The host is installed with Apple Mac OS X operating system and is prone to a sandbox profiles security bypass vulnerability.

Insight

Insight

The kSBXProfileNoNetwork and kSBXProfileNoInternet sandbox profiles fails to propagate restrictions to all created processes, which allows remote attackers to access network resources via apple events to invoke the execution of other applications not directly restricted by the sandbox.

Affected Software

Affected Software

Apple Mac OS X version 10.5.x through 10.7.2.

Solution

Solution

No known solution was made available for at least one year since the disclosure of this vulnerability. Likely none will be provided anymore. General solution options are to upgrade to a newer release, disable respective features, remove the product or replace the product by another one.

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