{"id":60,"date":"2008-07-07T16:27:47","date_gmt":"2008-07-07T14:27:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bergs.biz\/blog\/?p=60"},"modified":"2008-07-07T16:27:47","modified_gmt":"2008-07-07T14:27:47","slug":"ardagent-exploitable-locally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bergs.biz\/blog\/2008\/07\/07\/ardagent-exploitable-locally\/","title":{"rendered":"ARDAgent exploitable locally"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was pointed by a colleague that ARDAgent can be exploited locally to gain &#8220;root&#8221; privileges under MacOS 10.4 and 10.5. A quick search on Google turned up <a href=\"http:\/\/www.macworld.com\/article\/134165\/2008\/06\/ardagent.html?t=101\" target=\"_blank\">this post on Macworld<\/a> that gives some details about this issue.<\/p>\n<p>To check whether you&#8217;re vulnerable type the following in a Terminal window:<\/p>\n<pre>osascript -e 'tell app \"ARDAgent\" to do shell script \"whoami\"';\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>And if it says root you are vulnerable. 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