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OSVDB: OSVDB-84709

Viscosity setuid-set ViscosityHelper Privilege Escalation

Posted Mar 5, 2013

Authored by juan vazquez, Jason A. Donenfeld | Site metasploit.com

This Metasploit 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 Metasploit module has been tested successfully on Viscosity 1.4.1 over Mac OS X 10.7.5.

tags | exploit, arbitrary, root, python

systems | apple, osx

advisories | CVE-2012-4284, OSVDB-84709

SHA-256 | 6327eb13b7e692d86e8bb599155a99f74615d2b9fede67b7da69c91955b632d0

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