Type Confusion in Apple Safari - CVE-2020-3897

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Type Confusion in Apple Safari - CVE-2020-3897

Published: March 27, 2020 / Updated: March 27, 2020


Vulnerability identifier: #VU26422
CSH Severity: High
CVSS v4: 8.6 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2020-3897
CWE-ID: CWE-843
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the target system.

The vulnerability exists due to a type confusion error within the object transition cache. A remote attacker can trick a victim to visit a malicisou page or open a specially crafted file, trigger a type confusion error and execute arbitrary code on the target system.

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may result in complete compromise of vulnerable system.


Affected software

Apple Safari
Gentoo Linux
SUSE CaaS Platform
watchOS
SUSE Enterprise Storage
Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for Power, little endian
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64
Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for ARM 64
Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for IBM z Systems
SUSE OpenStack Cloud Crowbar
SUSE OpenStack Cloud
HPE Helion Openstack
Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for x86_64
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP
SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit
Apple iOS
iPadOS
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing
Service Telemetry Framework
WebKitGTK+
WPE WebKit
webkit2gtk (Debian package)
gnome-remote-desktop (Red Hat package)
pipewire0.2 (Red Hat package)
pipewire (Red Hat package)
webrtc-audio-processing (Red Hat package)
dleyna-renderer (Red Hat package)
LibRaw (Red Hat package)
vte291 (Red Hat package)
PackageKit (Red Hat package)
xdg-desktop-portal-gtk (Red Hat package)
xdg-desktop-portal (Red Hat package)
frei0r-plugins (Red Hat package)
potrace (Red Hat package)
gtk-doc (Red Hat package)
gvfs (Red Hat package)
tracker (Red Hat package)
webkit2gtk3 (Red Hat package)
typelib-1_0-WebKit2WebExtension-4_0
libjavascriptcoregtk-4_0-18
libwebkit2gtk3-lang
libjavascriptcoregtk-4_0-18-debuginfo
libwebkit2gtk-4_0-37
libwebkit2gtk-4_0-37-debuginfo
typelib-1_0-JavaScriptCore-4_0
typelib-1_0-WebKit2-4_0
webkit2gtk-4_0-injected-bundles
webkit2gtk-4_0-injected-bundles-debuginfo
webkit2gtk3-debugsource
webkit2gtk3-devel
libsoup (Red Hat package)
gtk3 (Red Hat package)
gnome-photos (Red Hat package)
gnome-session (Red Hat package)
nautilus (Red Hat package)
gnome-control-center (Red Hat package)
gnome-terminal (Red Hat package)
pygobject3 (Red Hat package)
gdm (Red Hat package)
gsettings-desktop-schemas (Red Hat package)
gnome-settings-daemon (Red Hat package)
gnome-shell-extensions (Red Hat package)
gnome-shell (Red Hat package)
mutter (Red Hat package)
Quay
OpenShift Data Foundation (formerly OpenShift Container Storage)

How to mitigate CVE-2020-3897

Install updates from vendor's website.

Apple Safari - update to 13.1
WebKitGTK+ - update to 2.28.0
webkit2gtk (Debian package) - update to 2.28.2-2~deb10u1
WPE WebKit - update to 2.28.0
Quay - update to 3.3.3
watchOS - update to 6.2
Apple iOS - update to 13.4 17E255
iPadOS - update to 13.4
gnome-remote-desktop (Red Hat package) - update to 0.1.8-3.el8
pipewire0.2 (Red Hat package) - update to 0.2.7-6.el8
pipewire (Red Hat package) - update to 0.3.6-1.el8
webrtc-audio-processing (Red Hat package) - update to 0.3-9.el8
dleyna-renderer (Red Hat package) - update to 0.6.0-3.el8
LibRaw (Red Hat package) - update to 0.19.5-2.el8
vte291 (Red Hat package) - update to 0.52.4-2.el8
PackageKit (Red Hat package) - update to 1.1.12-6.el8
xdg-desktop-portal-gtk (Red Hat package) - update to 1.6.0-1.el8
xdg-desktop-portal (Red Hat package) - update to 1.6.0-2.el8
frei0r-plugins (Red Hat package) - update to 1.6.1-7.el8
potrace (Red Hat package) - update to 1.15-3.el8
gtk-doc (Red Hat package) - update to 1.28-2.el8
gvfs (Red Hat package) - update to 1.36.2-10.el8
tracker (Red Hat package) - update to 2.1.5-2.el8
webkit2gtk3 (Red Hat package) - update to 2.28.4-1.el8
typelib-1_0-WebKit2WebExtension-4_0 - addressed in versions 2.34.3-2.82.1, 2.34.3-3.92.1
libjavascriptcoregtk-4_0-18 - addressed in versions 2.34.3-2.82.1, 2.34.3-3.92.1
libwebkit2gtk3-lang - addressed in versions 2.34.3-2.82.1, 2.34.3-3.92.1
libjavascriptcoregtk-4_0-18-debuginfo - addressed in versions 2.34.3-2.82.1, 2.34.3-3.92.1
libwebkit2gtk-4_0-37 - addressed in versions 2.34.3-2.82.1, 2.34.3-3.92.1
libwebkit2gtk-4_0-37-debuginfo - addressed in versions 2.34.3-2.82.1, 2.34.3-3.92.1
typelib-1_0-JavaScriptCore-4_0 - addressed in versions 2.34.3-2.82.1, 2.34.3-3.92.1
typelib-1_0-WebKit2-4_0 - addressed in versions 2.34.3-2.82.1, 2.34.3-3.92.1
webkit2gtk-4_0-injected-bundles - addressed in versions 2.34.3-2.82.1, 2.34.3-3.92.1
webkit2gtk-4_0-injected-bundles-debuginfo - addressed in versions 2.34.3-2.82.1, 2.34.3-3.92.1
webkit2gtk3-debugsource - addressed in versions 2.34.3-2.82.1, 2.34.3-3.92.1
webkit2gtk3-devel - addressed in versions 2.34.3-2.82.1, 2.34.3-3.92.1
libsoup (Red Hat package) - update to 2.62.3-2.el8
gtk3 (Red Hat package) - update to 3.22.30-6.el8
gnome-photos (Red Hat package) - update to 3.28.1-3.el8
gnome-session (Red Hat package) - update to 3.28.1-10.el8
nautilus (Red Hat package) - update to 3.28.1-14.el8
gnome-control-center (Red Hat package) - update to 3.28.2-22.el8
gnome-terminal (Red Hat package) - update to 3.28.3-2.el8
pygobject3 (Red Hat package) - update to 3.28.3-2.el8
gdm (Red Hat package) - update to 3.28.3-34.el8
gsettings-desktop-schemas (Red Hat package) - update to 3.32.0-5.el8
gnome-settings-daemon (Red Hat package) - update to 3.32.0-11.el8
gnome-shell-extensions (Red Hat package) - update to 3.32.1-11.el8
gnome-shell (Red Hat package) - update to 3.32.2-20.el8
mutter (Red Hat package) - update to 3.32.2-48.el8

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