Cocktail needs administrative privileges the user is
\nprompted for the admin password upon startup. The actual
\nmaintenance is done by command line utilities that are executed
\nin an insecure manner: Cocktail creates a new process and
\nlets \/bin\/sh pipe the admin password using echo into sudo,
\nwhich then will execute the utility, like this:<\/p>\n
sh -c echo ‘PASSWORD’ | sudo -p “” -S sudo update_prebinding -root \/<\/p>\n
Exploitation:<\/p>\n
Knowing Cocktail is waiting for some Unix utility to have finished its work, just execute “ps ax” on the terminal and search for the password.<\/p>\n
The vendor has been contacted; the new version 3.6 for Mac OS X “Tiger” should have been fixed. I haven’t tested this version, though.<\/p>\n
by sonderling<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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