CVE intelligence and bounded remediation

CVE-2018-4229 — An issue was discovered in certain Apple products

Critical CVSS 10

An issue was discovered in certain Apple products. macOS before 10.13.5 is affected. The issue involves the "Grand Central Dispatch" component. It allows attackers to bypass a sandbox protection mechanism by leveraging the misparsing of entitlement plists.

Severity
Critical
CVSS
10 (3.0)
Published
2018-06-08
CISA KEV
Not currently listed
Ecosystem
apple/platform

Affected products

  • apple / mac_os_x

Matched remediation archetype

General vulnerability remediation

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Check exposure

  • Confirm the affected component, deployment paths, reachable interfaces, and enabled features from inventories and configuration, without probing production destructively.
  • Compare the advisory's affected conditions with the repository lockfiles, build manifests, artifacts, and runtime inventory.
  • Identify data sensitivity, trust boundaries, and privilege level for every confirmed affected deployment.

Remediate safely

  • Apply a vendor-supported fix or remove the affected component or feature; record the selected change and its source in the repository.
  • Update direct and transitive dependency locks, generated artifacts, deployment manifests, and asset inventories together.
  • Add a regression test for the documented unsafe condition using inert inputs and preserve rollback instructions.

Authoritative sources

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