Apple Mac OS X UserNotificationCenter privilege escalation vulnerability

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.

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Impact

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

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Solution

Apply an update

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

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Vendor Information

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Updated: February 16, 2007

Status

Affected

Vendor Statement

We have not received a statement from the vendor.

Vendor Information

The vendor has not provided us with any further information regarding this vulnerability.

Addendum

See <http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=305102&gt; for more details.

If you have feedback, comments, or additional information about this vulnerability, please send us [email](<mailto:[email protected]?Subject=VU%23315856 Feedback>).

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References

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

Acknowledgements

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
Severity Metric:	1.49 Date Public: