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Apple Products ARDAgent Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
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Secunia Advisory:
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SA30776
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Release Date:
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2008-06-23
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Last Update:
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2008-09-17
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Popularity:
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4,892 views
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Critical:
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Less critical
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Impact:
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Privilege escalation
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Where:
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Local system
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Solution Status:
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Vendor Patch
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| OS: | Apple Macintosh OS X
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| Software: | Apple Remote Desktop 3.x
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Description:
A vulnerability has been discovered in Mac OS X and Apple Remote Desktop, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to gain escalated privileges.
The problem is that "ARDAgent", which is owned by "root" and has the setuid bit set, can be invoked to execute shell commands via AppleScript (e.g. through "osascript"). This can be exploited to execute arbitrary commands with root privileges.
The vulnerability is confirmed on Mac OS X 10.4 and reported in version 10.5, and is also reported in Apple Remote Desktop prior to version 3.2.2.
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