{"id":39407,"date":"2021-02-03T01:15:19","date_gmt":"2021-02-03T01:15:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/3e2637a2-94c9-4d47-a8df-fd0bbbb4f868"},"modified":"2021-02-03T01:15:19","modified_gmt":"2021-02-03T01:15:19","slug":"recent-root-giving-sudo-bug-also-impacts-macos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/recent-root-giving-sudo-bug-also-impacts-macos\/","title":{"rendered":"Recent root-giving Sudo bug also impacts macOS"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"image image-original shortcode-image\"><span class=\"img aspect-set \"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/zdnet4.cbsistatic.com\/hub\/i\/2021\/02\/03\/cc9d256d-2ef2-4b02-8af9-382c3c3e1948\/sudo-bug-macos.jpg\" class alt=\"sudo-bug-macos.jpg\"><\/span><figcaption><span class=\"caption\"><\/span><span class=\"credit\"> Image: Will Dormann <\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A British security researcher has discovered today that a recent security flaw in the Sudo app also impacts the macOS operating system, and not just Linux and BSD, as initially believed.<\/p>\n<p>The vulnerability,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/article\/10-years-old-sudo-bug-lets-linux-users-gain-root-level-access\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">disclosed last week<\/a>&nbsp;as CVE-2021-3156 (aka Baron Samedit) by security researchers from Qualys, impacts Sudo, an app that allows admins to delegate limited root access to other users.<\/p>\n<p>Qualys researchers discovered that they could trigger a &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/resources.infosecinstitute.com\/topic\/heap-overflow-vulnerability-and-heap-internals-explained\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" data-component=\"externalLink\">heap overflow<\/a>&#8221; bug in the Sudo app to change the current user&#8217;s low-privileged access to root-level commands, granting the attacker access to the whole system.<\/p>\n<p>The only condition to exploit this bug was that an attacker gain access to a system, which researchers said could be done by either planting malware on a device or brute-forcing a low-privileged service account.<\/p>\n<p>In their&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/blog.qualys.com\/vulnerabilities-research\/2021\/01\/26\/cve-2021-3156-heap-based-buffer-overflow-in-sudo-baron-samedit\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" data-component=\"externalLink\">report<\/a>&nbsp;last week, Qualys researchers said they only tested the issue on Ubuntu, Debian, and Fedora. They said that are UNIX-like operating systems are also impacted, but most security researchers thought the bug might impact BSD, another major OS that also ships with the Sudo app.<\/p>\n<h3>Latest macOS version also impacted<\/h3>\n<p>But as&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hackerfantastic\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-component=\"externalLink\">Matthew Hickey<\/a>, the co-founder of Hacker House, pointed out on Twitter today, the recent version of macOS&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/support.apple.com\/en-gb\/HT202035\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" data-component=\"externalLink\">also ships with the Sudo app<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Hickey said he tested the CVE-2021-3156 vulnerability and found that with a few modifications, the security bug could be used to grant attackers access to macOS root accounts as well.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"media-source\">\n<div class=\"twitterContainer\" readability=\"6.1711711711712\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" readability=\"6.5825825825826\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">CVE-2021-3156 also impacts <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Apple?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" data-component=\"externalLink\">@apple<\/a> MacOS Big Sur (unpatched at present), you can enable exploitation of the issue by symlinking sudo to sudoedit and then triggering the heap overflow to escalate one&#8217;s privileges to 1337 uid=0. Fun for <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/p0sixninja?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" data-component=\"externalLink\">@p0sixninja<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/tyXFB3odxE\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" data-component=\"externalLink\">pic.twitter.com\/tyXFB3odxE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Hacker Fantastic \ud83d\udce1 (@hackerfantastic) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hackerfantastic\/status\/1356645638151303169?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" data-component=\"externalLink\">February 2, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<section class=\"sharethrough-top\" data-component=\"medusaContentRecommendation\" data-medusa-content-recommendation-options=\"{&quot;promo&quot;:&quot;promo_zd_recommendation_sharethrough_top_in_article_desktop&quot;,&quot;spot&quot;:&quot;dfp-in-article&quot;}\"> <\/section>\n<p>&#8220;To trigger it, you just have to overwrite argv[0] or create a symlink, which therefore exposes the OS to the same local root vulnerability that has plagued Linux users the last week or so,&#8221; Hickey told&nbsp;<em>ZDNet&nbsp;<\/em>today, prior to sharing a video of the bug in question.<\/p>\n<p>His findings were also privately and independently verified and confirmed to&nbsp;<em>ZDNet&nbsp;<\/em>by&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/patrickwardle\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-component=\"externalLink\">Patrick Wardle<\/a>, one of today&#8217;s leading macOS security experts, and publicly by&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/wdormann\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-component=\"externalLink\">Will Dormann<\/a>, a vulnerability analyst at the Carnegie Mellon University&#8217;s CERT Coordination Center.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"media-source\"> <\/figure>\n<p>Hickey told&nbsp;<em>ZDNet&nbsp;<\/em>the bug could be exploited in the recent version of macOS, even after applying the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/support.apple.com\/en-us\/HT212147\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" data-component=\"externalLink\">recent security patches<\/a>&nbsp;Apple released on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The researcher said he notified Apple of the issue earlier today. Apple declined to comment as it investigates the report; however, even without an official confirmation from the Cupertino-based tech giant, a patch is most likely expected for such a serious issue.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, other researchers found that the bug could also be&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/astr0baby\/status\/1356656837538549760\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-component=\"externalLink\">exploited on IBM AIX systems<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> READ MORE <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/article\/recent-root-giving-sudo-bug-also-impacts-macos\/#ftag=RSSbaffb68\">HERE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A bug in the Sudo app can let attackers with access to a local system to elevate their access to a root-level account.<br \/>\nREAD MORE 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