An authentication weakness in Apple’s Device Enrollment Program (DEP) may allow attackers to enroll any device into an organization’s Mobile Device Management server and, consequently, to obtain privileged access to the private resources of an organization or even full VPN access to internal systems.
In addition to this, the provided DEP profile may contain information about the organization (email addresses, phone numbers) that could be used to mount successful social engineering attacks against company employees.
The vulnerability
The vulnerability was discovered by Duo Security researchers while probing Apple DEP’s security.
“Our research focused on the details of how some of the undocumented DEP APIs work, specifically those that are used by Apple devices to communicate and enroll with the DEP service.
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