Critical Apple Login Bug Puts macOS High Sierra Systems at Risk

A major bug in Apple’s macOS gives anyone with physical access to a computer running the latest version of the High Sierra operating system admin access simply by putting “root” in the user name field. The bug was publicized Tuesday by developer Lemi Orhan Ergin, founder of Software Craftsmanship...

Design/Logic Flaw

An issue was discovered in certain Apple products. macOS before 10.13.1 is affected. The issue involves the "APFS" component. It does not properly restrict the DMA mapping time of FileVault decryption buffers, which allows attackers to read cleartext APFS data via a crafted Thunderbolt adapter...

CVE-2017-13786

An issue was discovered in certain Apple products. macOS before 10.13.1 is affected. The issue involves the "APFS" component. It does not properly restrict the DMA mapping time of FileVault decryption buffers, which allows attackers to read cleartext APFS data via a crafted Thunderbolt adapter...

CVE-2017-13800

An issue was discovered in certain Apple products. macOS before 10.13.1 is affected. The issue involves the "APFS" component. It allows attackers to execute arbitrary code in a privileged context or cause a denial of service memory corruption via a crafted app...

Memory corruption

An issue was discovered in certain Apple products. macOS before 10.13.1 is affected. The issue involves the "APFS" component. It allows attackers to execute arbitrary code in a privileged context or cause a denial of service memory corruption via a crafted app...

CVE-2017-13800

An issue was discovered in certain Apple products. macOS before 10.13.1 is affected. The issue involves the "APFS" component. It allows attackers to execute arbitrary code in a privileged context or cause a denial of service memory corruption via a crafted app...

CVE-2017-13800

CVE-2017-13800 affects APFS on macOS before 10.13.1. A memory corruption flaw in APFS may allow a crafted app to execute arbitrary code with system privileges or cause a denial of service. Apple attributes the fix to macOS 10.13.1 (Security Update 2017-001 Sierra, and related updates); the APFS e...

CVE-2017-13786

APFS DMA mapping timing vulnerability in macOS with versions before 10.13.1. The issue allows reading cleartext APFS data via a crafted Thunderbolt adapter due to insufficient restriction of DMA mapping time for FileVault decryption buffers. Apple’s security update 10.13.1 (and related Sierra/El ...

CVE-2017-13800

An issue was discovered in certain Apple products. macOS before 10.13.1 is affected. The issue involves the "APFS" component. It allows attackers to execute arbitrary code in a privileged context or cause a denial of service memory corruption via a crafted app...

CVE-2017-13786

An issue was discovered in certain Apple products. macOS before 10.13.1 is affected. The issue involves the "APFS" component. It does not properly restrict the DMA mapping time of FileVault decryption buffers, which allows attackers to read cleartext APFS data via a crafted Thunderbolt adapter...

macOS 10.13.x < 10.13.1 Multiple Vulnerabilities

The remote host is running a version of Mac OS X that is 10.13.x prior to 10.13.1. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities in the following components : - APFS - curl - Dictionary Widget - Kernel - StreamingZip - tcpdump - Wi-Fi Note that successful exploitation of the most serious...

Apple Mac OS X Code Execution And Information Disclosure Vulnerabilities (HT208221)

Apple Mac OS X is prone to code execution and information disclosure vulnerabilities. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2017 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only...

Apple macOS High Sierra Arbitrary Code Execution Vulnerability

Apple macOS High Sierra is a specialized operating system developed by Apple for Mac computers.APFS is one of the file system components for Apple devices. A security vulnerability exists in the APFS component of Apple macOS High Sierra versions prior to 10.13.1. An attacker can exploit the...

About the security content of macOS High Sierra 10.13.1, Security Update 2017-001 Sierra, and Security Update 2017-004 El Capitan

About the security content of macOS High Sierra 10.13.1, Security Update 2017-001 Sierra, and Security Update 2017-004 El Capitan This document describes the security content of macOS High Sierra 10.13.1, Security Update 2017-001 Sierra, and Security Update 2017-004 El Capitan. About Apple securi...

CVE-2017-7149

An issue was discovered in certain Apple products. macOS before 10.13 Supplemental Update is affected. The issue involves the "StorageKit" component. It allows attackers to discover passwords for APFS encrypted volumes by reading Disk Utility hints, because the stored hint value was accidentally...

Code injection

An issue was discovered in certain Apple products. macOS before 10.13 Supplemental Update is affected. The issue involves the "StorageKit" component. It allows attackers to discover passwords for APFS encrypted volumes by reading Disk Utility hints, because the stored hint value was accidentally...

CVE-2017-7149

CVE-2017-7149 affects macOS before 10.13 Supplemental Update via the StorageKit component. The vulnerability allows reading Disk Utility hints to recover APFS volume passwords because the stored hint value could be the actual password. Impact is exposure of passwords for APFS-encrypted volumes; a...

CVE-2017-7149

An issue was discovered in certain Apple products. macOS before 10.13 Supplemental Update is affected. The issue involves the "StorageKit" component. It allows attackers to discover passwords for APFS encrypted volumes by reading Disk Utility hints, because the stored hint value was accidentally...

Emergency Apple Patch Fixes High Sierra Password Hint Leak

Apple rushed out an emergency patch Thursday that fixed an incredulous bug in its shiny new High Sierra operating system that revealed APFS volume passwords via the password hint feature. Brazilian researcher Matheus Mariano of Leet Tech found the bug and privately disclosed it to Apple. He said...

Apple macOS High Sierra Bug Exposes Passwords of Encrypted APFS Volumes As Hint

A severe programming error has been discovered in Apple's latest macOS High Sierra 10.13 that exposes passwords of encrypted Apple File System APFS volumes in plain text. Reported by Matheus Mariano, a Brazilian software developer, the vulnerability affects encrypted volumes using APFS wherein th...