Title: MacOS Weak Password Encryption Vulnerability
Severity: MODERATE
Description:
The encryption algorithm in MacOS system is simple and the password can be easily decoded.
Password is stored in Users & Groups Data File in Preferences folder. Offset is different on each system and depends on Users & Groups configuration, but it always lie after owner's username. It's not so difficult to find it using a hex editor, even if we don't know owner's username.
Here are some examples of encrypted passwords:
00 04 06 18 0D 0A 19 0B = stayaway
0A 1F 10 1B 00 07 75 1E = yellow
1C 1B 16 14 12 62 10 7B = owner
07 02 13 1A 1E 0F 1A 14 = turnpage
27 25 33 27 27 39 24 7E = Trustno1
AA BB CC DD EE FF GG HH = aa bb cc dd ee ff gg hh
where:
AA BB CC DD EE FF GG HH - encrypted password (hex)
aa bb cc dd ee ff gg hh - decrypted password in ASCII codes (hex)
aa=AA XOR 73H
bb=BB XOR AA XOR 70H
cc=CC XOR BB XOR 63H
dd=DD XOR CC XOR 67H
ee=EE XOR DD XOR 74H
ff=FF XOR EE XOR 70H
gg=GG XOR FF XOR 72H
hh=HH XOR GG XOR 6BH
An example:
Let's take OO 04 06 18 0D 0A 19 0B
00H XOR 73H = 73H = s
04H XOR 00H = 04H; 04H XOR 70H = 74H = t
06H XOR 04H = 02H; O2H XOR 63H = 61H = a
18H XOR 06H = 1EH; 1EH XOR 67H = 79H = y
0DH XOR 18H = 15H; 15H XOR 74H = 61H = a
0AH XOR 0DH = 07H; 07H XOR 70H = 77H = w
19H XOR 0AH = 13H; 13H XOR 72H = 61H = a
0BH XOR 19H = 12H; 12H XOR 6BH = 79H = y
tested on:
MacOS 7.5.3, 7.5.5, 8.1, 8.5
copied verbatim from a post to bugtraq by Dawid adix Adamski <adixx@FRIKO4.ONET.PL> on July 10, 1999
Affected Products:
- Apple Mac OS 7 7.5.3
- Apple Mac OS 7 7.6.0
- Apple Mac OS 7 7.6.1
- Apple Mac OS 8 8.0.0
- Apple Mac OS 8 8.1.0
- Apple Mac OS 8 8.5.0
- Apple Mac OS 8 8.6.0
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