Local Privilege Escalation (LPE) Demo in macOS Tahoe 26.5.1 · PoC Demo
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Local Privilege Escalation (LPE) Demo in macOS Tahoe 26.5.1 - PoC Demo Source: https://x.com/everping/status/2081976759776645459
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CyStack's researcher named Trung Nguyen (known as everping on the cybersecurity community) demonstrates a local privilege escalation vulnerability in the Accounts component of Apple macOS. A parsing flaw in how directory paths are handled allows an unprivileged application to supply a crafted path that escapes the intended directory, escalating to root privileges on the machine.
Affected versions: macOS Sonoma before 14.8.8, Sequoia before 15.7.8 and Tahoe before 26.6