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Viscosity setuid-set ViscosityHelper Privilege Escalation

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Disclosed
2012-08-12
Created
2018-05-30

Description

This module exploits a vulnerability in Viscosity 1.4.1 on Mac OS X. The
vulnerability exists in the setuid ViscosityHelper, where an insufficient
validation of path names allows execution of arbitrary python code as root.
This module has been tested successfully on Viscosity 1.4.1 over Mac OS X
10.7.5.

Authors

Jason A. Donenfeld
juan vazquez juan.vazquez@metasploit.com

Platform

OSX

Architectures

x86, 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/setuid_viscosity
    msf exploit(setuid_viscosity) > show targets
        ...targets...
    msf exploit(setuid_viscosity) > set TARGET < target-id >
    msf exploit(setuid_viscosity) > show options
        ...show and set options...
    msf exploit(setuid_viscosity) > exploit
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