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Mac OS X Root Privilege Escalation

Disclosed
11/29/2017
Created
06/14/2018

Description

This module exploits a serious flaw in MacOSX High Sierra. Any user can login with user "root", leaving an empty password.

Author(s)

  • chethan177
  • lemiorhan
  • timwr

Platform

OSX

Architectures

x64

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/local/root_no_password
msf exploit(root_no_password) > show targets
    ...targets...
msf exploit(root_no_password) > set TARGET < target-id >
msf exploit(root_no_password) > show options
    ...show and set options...
msf exploit(root_no_password) > exploit

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