An issue was discovered in certain Apple products. macOS before 10.13.1 is affected. The issue involves the "Dictionary Widget" component. It allows attackers to read local files if pasted text is used in a search.

The remote host is running a version of Mac OS X that is 10.13.x prior to 10.13.1. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities in the following components :

 - APFS
 - curl
 - Dictionary Widget
 - Kernel
 - StreamingZip
 - tcpdump
 - Wi-Fi

Note that successful exploitation of the most serious issues can result in arbitrary code execution.

The remote host is running Mac OS X 10.11.6 or Mac OS X 10.12.6 and is missing a security update. It is therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities affecting the following components :

  - 802.1X
  - apache
  - AppleScript
  - ATS
  - Audio
  - CFString
  - CoreText
  - curl
  - Dictionary Widget
  - file
  - Fonts
  - fsck_msdos
  - HFS
  - Heimdal
  - HelpViewer
  - ImageIO
  - Kernel
  - libarchive
  - Open Scripting Architecture
  - PCRE
  - Postfix
  - Quick Look
  - QuickTime
  - Remote Management
  - Sandbox
  - StreamingZip
  - tcpdump
  - Wi-Fi

The remote host is running a version of Mac OS X that is 10.13.x prior to 10.13.1. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities in the following components :

  - APFS
  - curl
  - Dictionary Widget
  - Kernel
  - StreamingZip
  - tcpdump
  - Wi-Fi

Note that successful exploitation of the most serious issues can result in arbitrary code execution.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
700512	macOS 10.13.x < 10.13.1 Multiple Vulnerabilities	Nessus Network Monitor	Operating System Detection	critical
104379	macOS and Mac OS X Multiple Vulnerabilities (Security Update 2017-001 and 2017-004)	Nessus	MacOS X Local Security Checks	critical
104378	macOS 10.13.x < 10.13.1 Multiple Vulnerabilities	Nessus	MacOS X Local Security Checks	high

Detections

Analytics

CVE-2017-13801

low

Tenable Plugins

critical

critical

high