CVE-2008-2830
Mac OS X 10.4.11 and 10.5.4 - Privilege Escalation via Scripting Addition Commands
Title source: llmExploitation Summary
EIP tracks 1 public exploit for CVE-2008-2830. PoCs published by anonymous.
AI-analyzed exploit summary This exploit leverages a local privilege escalation vulnerability in ARDAgent (Apple Remote Desktop) on Mac OS X 10.5. It uses osascript to execute arbitrary shell commands with superuser privileges via the ARDAgent application.
Description
Open Scripting Architecture in Apple Mac OS X 10.4.11 and 10.5.4, and some other 10.4 and 10.5 versions, does not properly restrict the loading of scripting addition plugins, which allows local users to gain privileges via scripting addition commands to a privileged application, as originally demonstrated by an osascript tell command to ARDAgent.
Exploits (1)
This exploit leverages a local privilege escalation vulnerability in ARDAgent (Apple Remote Desktop) on Mac OS X 10.5. It uses osascript to execute arbitrary shell commands with superuser privileges via the ARDAgent application.