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Apple OS X Rootpipe Privilege Escalation

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Disclosed
2015-04-09
Created
2018-05-30

Description

This module exploits a hidden backdoor API in Apple's Admin framework on
Mac OS X to escalate privileges to root, dubbed "Rootpipe."

This module was tested on Yosemite 10.10.2 and should work on previous versions.

The patch for this issue was not backported to older releases.

Note: you must run this exploit as an admin user to escalate to root.

Authors

Emil Kvarnhammar
joev joev@metasploit.com
wvu wvu@metasploit.com

Platform

OSX

Architectures

x64

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