Arq 5.9.6 - Local root Privilege Escalation Exploit

Exploit for macOS platform in category local exploits Arq Backup from Haystack Software is a great application for backing up macs and windows machines. Unfortunately versions of Arq for mac before 5.9.7 are vulnerable to a local root privilege escalation exploit. The updater binary has a...

Arq 5.9.6 - Local Privilege Escalation

Arq 5.9.6 - Local Privilege Escalation Arq Backup from Haystack Software is a great application for backing up macs and windows machines. Unfortunately versions of Arq for mac before 5.9.7 are vulnerable to a local root privilege escalation exploit. The updater binary has a "setpermissions"...

Haystack Arq for Mac helper app elevation of privilege vulnerability

Haystack Arq for Mac is a Mac-based file backup software from Haystack Software, USA. arqupdater and others are among the components. Mac-based Haystack Software Arq 5.10 before the 5.x version of several helper app has a security vulnerability. A local attacker can exploit the vulnerability to...

Arq Backup 5.9.6 Local Root Privilege Escalation

Arq Backup from Haystack Software is a great application for backing up macs and windows machines. Unfortunately versions of Arq for mac before 5.9.7 are vulnerable to a local root privilege escalation exploit. The updater binary has a "setpermissions" function which sets the suid bit and root...

Haystack Arq for Mac 'setpermissions' function elevation of privilege vulnerability

Haystack Arq for Mac is a Mac-based file backup software from Haystack Software, USA. auto-updater is one of the auto-updater components. An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in the 'setpermissions' function of auto-updater in versions of Haystack Arq for Mac prior to 5.9.7. A local...

Process Heap Analysis Framework: Python Haystack

Process Heap Analysis Framework python-haystack is an heap analysis framework, focused on searching and reversing of C structure in allocated memory. The first function/API is the SEARCH function. It gives the ability to search for known record types in a process memory dump or live process’s...