Description
A Privilege Escalation vulnerability exists in Viscosity 1.4.1 on Mac OS X due to a path name validation issue in the setuid-set ViscosityHelper binary, which could let a remote malicious user execute arbitrary code
Public exploits
Exploit or proof-of-concept code for this vulnerability is publicly available, which lowers the bar for attackers. Treat it as a reason to patch sooner.
Third-party code, not reviewed by us. Public PoCs are sometimes fake or contain malware. Read the code first and run it only in an isolated lab, against systems you are authorised to test.
Metasploit 1 module
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Viscosity setuid-set ViscosityHelper Privilege Escalation
exploit/osx/local/setuid_viscosity
Exploit-DB 2
- Viscosity - setuid-set ViscosityHelper Privilege Escalation (Metasploit) EDB-24579 · local · Mar 5, 2013 · verified
- Viscosity - Local Privilege Escalation EDB-20485 · local · Aug 13, 2012
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