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Apple OS X Entitlements Rootpipe Privilege Escalation

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Apple OS X Entitlements Rootpipe Privilege Escalation

Disclosed
07/01/2015
Created
05/30/2018

Description

This module exploits the rootpipe vulnerability and bypasses Apple's initial fix for the issue by injecting code into a process with the 'admin.writeconfig' entitlement.

Author(s)

  • Emil Kvarnhammar
  • joev <joev@metasploit.com>

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

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