Safari User-Assisted Applescript Exec Attack
Description
In versions of Mac OS X before 10.11.1, the applescript:// URL scheme is provided, which opens the provided script in the Applescript Editor. Pressing cmd-R in the Editor executes the code without any additional confirmation from the user. By getting the user to press cmd-R in Safari, and by hooking the cmd-key keypress event, a user can be tricked into running arbitrary Applescript code. Gatekeeper should be disabled from Security & Privacy in order to avoid the unidentified Developer prompt.
Author(s)
- joev <joev@metasploit.com>
Platform
OSX,Unix
Architectures
cmd
Development
Module Options
To display the available options, load the module within the Metasploit console and run the commands 'show options' or 'show advanced':
msf > use exploit/osx/browser/safari_user_assisted_applescript_exec
msf exploit(safari_user_assisted_applescript_exec) > show targets
...targets...
msf exploit(safari_user_assisted_applescript_exec) > set TARGET < target-id >
msf exploit(safari_user_assisted_applescript_exec) > show options
...show and set options...
msf exploit(safari_user_assisted_applescript_exec) > exploit
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