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CCleaner Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability on macOS

blog.quarkslab.com | vulnerability | #privilege-escalation | #macos | #vulnerability | #pentest | #ccleaner | #ipc
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Summary

Quarkslab's technical exploration of a trivial Local Privilege Escalation in CCleaner for macOS via its Privileged Helper Tool and IPC mechanism; newer builds are fixed after a revamp.
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