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OS X VMWare Fusion Privilege Escalation via Bash Environment Code Injection (Shellshock)

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Disclosed
Sep 24, 2014
Created
May 30, 2018

Description

This module exploits the Shellshock vulnerability, a flaw in how the Bash shell
handles external environment variables. This module targets the VMWare Fusion
application, allowing an unprivileged local user to get root access.

Authors

Stephane Chazelas
juken
joev [email protected]
mubix [email protected]

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