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Safari User-Assisted Applescript Exec Attack

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Disclosed
Oct 16, 2015
Created
May 30, 2018

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

joev [email protected]

Platform

OSX,Unix

Architectures

cmd

References

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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