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ifwatchd Privilege Escalation

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Disclosed
2014-03-10
Created
2019-03-19

Description

This module attempts to gain root privileges on QNX 6.4.x and 6.5.x
systems by exploiting the ifwatchd suid executable.

ifwatchd allows users to specify scripts to execute using the '-A'
command line argument; however, it does not drop privileges when
executing user-supplied scripts, resulting in execution of arbitrary
commands as root.

This module has been tested successfully on QNX Neutrino 6.5.0 (x86)
and 6.5.0 SP1 (x86).

Authors

cenobyte
Tim Brown
bcoles bcoles@gmail.com

Platform

Unix

Architectures

cmd

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