Apple Mac OS X DirectoryService may allow arbitrary users to change the root password

Overview

A vulnerabilty in the Apple Mac OS X DirectoryService may allow unprivileged users to change the root password.

Description

The Apple Mac OS X DirectoryService contains a vulnerability that may allow unprivileged LDAP users to change the local root password. According to Apple security document 305214 :

An implementation flaw in DirectoryService allows an unprivileged LDAP user to change the local root password. The authentication mechanism in DirectoryService has been fixed to address this issue.

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Impact

An unprivileged attacker may be able to change the local root password.

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Solution

Upgrade

Apple has published Mac OS X 10.4.9 for Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger) systems and Security Update 2007-003 for Mac OS X 10.3 (Panther) systems in response to this issue. See Apple Security Update 2007-003 for more details.

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Vendor Information

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Updated: March 14, 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

Refer to Apple Security Update 2007-003.

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References

• <http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=305214&gt;
• <http://secunia.com/advisories/24479/&gt;

Acknowledgements

This vulnerability was reported in Apple Security Update 2007-003.

This document was written by Chris Taschner.

Other Information

CVE IDs:	CVE-2007-0723
Severity Metric:	4.50 Date Public: