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Mac OS X Root Privilege Escalation

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Disclosed
Nov 29, 2017
Created
Jun 14, 2018

Description

This module exploits a serious flaw in MacOSX High Sierra.
Any user can login with user "root", leaving an empty password.

Authors

chethan177
lemiorhan
timwr

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