That's why you should basically never link on high-level framework with a setuid tools.

Le 19 juin 08 à 20:48, Charles Steinman a écrit :

This is in fact a Cocoa vulnerability, so it seems relevant to this list. All Cocoa applications automagically come with rudimentary AppleScript support (including "do shell script"), so any Cocoa app that runs with suid is a security risk unless you short circuit the Foundation scripting support.

Cheers,
Chuck


--- On Thu, 6/19/08, Jerry LeVan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

From: Jerry LeVan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Cocoa can be used to execute arbitrary (privileged) code !
To: "cocoa-Dev Dev" <cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com>
Date: Thursday, June 19, 2008, 7:22 AM
Last night while browsing Slashdot I found this:

http://it.slashdot.org/it/08/06/18/1919224.shtml

It gives a simple command that can be used to
basically execute code as root.

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

The above will print "root" and replacing
"whoami" will other
commands will cause the commands to be executed as root.

Looks like a job for NSTask...

This is certainly easier than using the Authentication
protocols :)

The "root" problem is that the ARDAgent
executable is
suid'ed to root!

I was surprised than none of the common mac sites has
picked up on this...


Jerry
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