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rootOS

macOS Privilege Escalation Helper

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1472721 year agoReviewed by Kitploit

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rootOS

Tries to use various CVEs to gain sudo or root access. All exploits have an end goal of adding ALL ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL to /etc/sudoers allowing any user to run sudo commands.

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Run

root@kitploit:~
python root.py

Exploits

NameCVEDateLink(s)
ARDAgentCVE-2008-283006/23/2008https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-2830
DYLD_PRINT_TO_FILECVE-2015-376008/16/2015https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-3760 https://twitter.com/i0n1c/status/623727538234368000
MallocLogCVE-2015-58890/09/2015https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-5889
Proxifier SanitizeCVE-2017-764304/14/2017https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-7643
Sera Local Pass10/31/2017https://m4.rkw.io/blog/cve201715918-sera-12-local-root-privesc-and-password-disclosure.html
NoPassCVE-2017-1387211/29/2017https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-13872 https://objective-see.com/blog/blog_0x24.html
KeyStealCVE-2019-852606/01/2019https://github.com/LinusHenze/Keysteal
AppleScript Dynamic Phishinghttps://github.com/thehappydinoa/rootOS/blob/master/apps.json
Sudo Piggybackhttps://www.n00py.io/2016/10/privilege-escalation-on-os-x-without-exploits/

Dynamic Phishing

phishing

Please note the dynamic icon and prompt

Additional Exploits

  • amanszpapaya/MacPer

License

MIT

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