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Mail.app Image Attachment Command Execution

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Mail.app Image Attachment Command Execution

Disclosed
03/01/2006
Created
05/30/2018

Description

This module exploits a command execution vulnerability in the Mail.app application shipped with Mac OS X 10.5.0. This flaw was patched in 10.4 in March of 2007, but reintroduced into the final release of 10.5.

Author(s)

  • hdm <x@hdm.io>
  • kf <kf_list@digitalmunition.com>

Platform

OSX,Unix

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

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