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Mac OS X "tpwn" Privilege Escalation

Disclosed
08/16/2015
Created
05/30/2018

Description

This module exploits a null pointer dereference in XNU to escalate privileges to root. Tested on 10.10.4 and 10.10.5.

Author(s)

  • qwertyoruiop
  • wvu <wvu@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/tpwn
msf exploit(tpwn) > show targets
    ...targets...
msf exploit(tpwn) > set TARGET < target-id >
msf exploit(tpwn) > show options
    ...show and set options...
msf exploit(tpwn) > exploit

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