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Re: Remote Apple Events/Standard Additions Security Issue

On 31 Aug 2005, at 12:12, John C. Welch wrote:

On 8/31/05 03:23, "Martin Orpen" <email@hidden> wrote: 

That isn't true, OS X has never had that particular feature. Previous
OSs did have, but they also had AppleShareIP too - some features are
best consigned to history ;-)


What, remote Apple events? The initial releases didn't have it, but it's
been a part of the OS for a while now.

Sorry, that was unclear. I meant the ability to see remote applications - not remote events themselves.

Pre OS X, Standard Additions' "Choose Application" would allow you to choose apps that run on other Macs. It also had a check box that enabled you to specify an IP address - just like the new "choose remote application" dialog.

[snip]

Scripters can easily get a list of active processes using remote
apple events. I really don't think that so much information should be
handed over without some form of authentication.


I have to agree with Martin on this one...it should require authentication
for every eppc connection, regardless of use.

Yep. If Standard Additions is able to get that information without authentication then I'll bet it can be exploited further.

Who wants to give casual callers an inventory of their running applications anyhow? The OS may be secure, but some of the applications you're running might not be.

--
Martin Orpen
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