Directory traversal vulnerability in AFP Server in Apple Mac OS X before 10.6.3 allows remote attackers to list a share root's parent directory, and read and modify files in that directory, via unspecified vectors.

The remote host is running a version of Mac OS X 10.6 that is older than version 10.6.3.  Mac OS X 10.6.3 contains security fixes for the following products :

  - AFP Server

  - Apache

  - CoreAudio

  - CoreMedia

  - CoreTypes

  - CUPS

  - DesktopServices

  - Disk Images

  - Directory Services

  - Dovecot

  - Event Monitor

  - FreeRADIUS

  - FTP Server

  - iChat Server

  - ImageIO

  - Image RAW

  - Libsystem

  - Mail

  - MySQL

  - OS Services

  - Password Server

  - PHP

  - Podcast Producer

  - Preferences

  - PS Normalizer

  - QuickTime

  - Ruby

  - Server Admin

  - SMB

  - Tomcat

  - Wiki Server

  - X11

The remote AFP server allows guest users to read files located outside public shares by sending requests to the '..' directory. 

An attacker could use this flaw to read every file on this host.

The remote host is running a version of Mac OS X 10.5 that does not have Security Update 2010-002 applied.

This security update contains fixes for the following products :

  - AppKit
  - Application Firewall
  - AFP Server
  - Apache
  - ClamAV
  - CoreTypes
  - CUPS
  - curl
  - Cyrus IMAP
  - Cyrus SASL
  - Disk Images
  - Directory Services
  - Event Monitor
  - FreeRADIUS
  - FTP Server
  - iChat Server
  - Image RAW
  - Libsystem
  - Mail
  - Mailman
  - OS Services
  - Password Server
  - perl
  - PHP
  - PS Normalizer
  - Ruby
  - Server Admin
  - SMB
  - Tomcat
  - unzip
  - vim
  - Wiki Server
  - X11
  - xar

The remote host is running a version of Mac OS X 10.6.x that is prior to 10.6.3.

Mac OS X 10.6.3 contains security fixes for the following products :

  - AFP Server
  - Apache
  - CoreAudio
  - CoreMedia
  - CoreTypes
  - CUPS
  - DesktopServices
  - Disk Images
  - Directory Services
  - Dovecot
  - Event Monitor
  - FreeRADIUS
  - FTP Server
  - iChat Server
  - ImageIO
  - Image RAW
  - Libsystem
  - Mail
  - MySQL
  - OS Services
  - Password Server
  - PHP
  - Podcast Producer
  - Preferences
  - PS Normalizer
  - QuickTime
  - Ruby
  - Server Admin
  - SMB
  - Tomcat
  - Wiki Server
  - X11

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
5489	Mac OS X < 10.6.3 Multiple Vulnerabilities	Nessus Network Monitor	Generic	critical
45374	AFP Server Directory Traversal	Nessus	Misc.	medium
45373	Mac OS X Multiple Vulnerabilities (Security Update 2010-002)	Nessus	MacOS X Local Security Checks	critical
45372	Mac OS X 10.6.x < 10.6.3 Multiple Vulnerabilities	Nessus	MacOS X Local Security Checks	critical

Detections

Analytics

CVE-2010-0533

high

Tenable Plugins

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medium

critical

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