Mac OS X “Rootpipe” Privilege Escalation

The Admin framework in Apple OS X contains a hidden backdoor API Privilege Escalation to root privileges. It’s been there for several years (at least since 2011). Metasploit has added the POC module to their repo Mac OS X “Rootpipe” Users who aren’t running “yosemite” are shit out of luck so far, Apple had no plans to fix.
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