Information disclosure in macOS - CVE-2018-4170

 

Information disclosure in macOS - CVE-2018-4170

Published: March 30, 2018


Vulnerability identifier: #VU11422
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Clear
CVE-ID: CVE-2018-4170
CWE-ID: CWE-200
Exploitation vector: Local access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available
Vendor: Apple Inc.
Affected software:
macOS

Detailed vulnerability description

The vulnerability allows a local attacker to obtain potentially sensitive information on the target system.

The weakness exists due to unspecified flaw in Admin Framework. A local attacker can view passwords supplied to 'sysadminctl' via the command line.

How to mitigate CVE-2018-4170

Update to version 10.13.4.

Sources