Mac OS X TimeMachine (tmdiagnose) Command Injection Privilege Escalation
Description
This module exploits a command injection in TimeMachine on macOS <= 10.14.3 in order to run a payload as root. The tmdiagnose binary on OSX <= 10.14.3 suffers from a command injection vulnerability that can be exploited by creating a specially crafted disk label. The tmdiagnose binary uses awk to list every mounted volume, and composes shell commands based on the volume labels. By creating a volume label with the backtick character, we can have our own binary executed with root priviledges.
Author(s)
- CodeColorist
- timwr
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/local/timemachine_cmd_injection
msf exploit(timemachine_cmd_injection) > show targets
...targets...
msf exploit(timemachine_cmd_injection) > set TARGET < target-id >
msf exploit(timemachine_cmd_injection) > show options
...show and set options...
msf exploit(timemachine_cmd_injection) > exploit
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