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Mac OS X 10.9.5 / 10.10.5 - rsh/libmalloc Privilege Escalation

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Disclosed
Oct 1, 2015
Created
May 30, 2018

Description

This module writes to the sudoers file without root access by exploiting rsh and malloc log files.
Makes sudo require no password, giving access to su even if root is disabled.
Works on OS X 10.9.5 to 10.10.5 (patched on 10.11).

Authors

rebel
shandelman116

Platform

OSX,Python

Architectures

x64, python

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