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CVE-2023-32413 is a race condition vulnerability in Apple operating systems that was remediated through improved state handling. The flaw affects multiple Apple platforms, including iOS, iPadOS, macOS, watchOS, and tvOS prior to the vendor-fixed releases. Successful exploitation allows a malicious application to gain root privileges, indicating a local privilege escalation condition caused by improper synchronization or timing-dependent state transitions in privileged code.
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This repository contains a local privilege escalation exploit for macOS, targeting CVE-2023-32413, a TOCTOU (Time-of-Check to Time-of-Use) logic bug in the XNU kernel. The exploit is written in C and is designed to be compiled and run on a vulnerable macOS system. The main exploit file, 'exploit.c', performs the following steps: it manipulates file permissions and contents of a system file (by default '/var/db/.configureLocalKDC'), leverages the TOCTOU bug to overwrite the file, and then executes it to gain root privileges. Upon successful exploitation, it spawns a root shell using '/usr/bin/login' and displays an animated ASCII art. The exploit is operational, reliable, and was demonstrated at Pwn2Own Vancouver 2023. The repository structure is simple, containing only the exploit source code and a README with background and usage information. No network or remote attack vectors are present; the exploit is purely local.
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