Title: Apple Mac OS X PPP Authentication Credentials Disclosure Vulnerability
Severity: LOW
Description:
An issue has been reported in Mac OS X which could disclose the authentication information for a PPP connection.
If a user has established a PPP connection, executing a ps command will not only display the information about current processes running, but will disclose the PPP username and password for Internet Connect.
Knowledge of this information could assist in further attacks against the target host.
Affected Products:
- Apple Mac OS X 10.0.0
- Apple Mac OS X 10.1.0
- Apple Mac OS X 10.1.1
- Apple Mac OS X 10.1.2
- Apple Mac OS X 10.1.3
- Apple Mac OS X 10.1.4
- Apple Mac OS X 10.1.5
References:
- Macsecurity.org: MacOSX ppp
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