For the last couple of weeks we’ve assisted the Dutch police in investigating the Genesis Market. In case you are unfamiliar with this market, it was used to sell stolen login credentials, browser cookies and online fingerprints (in order to prevent ‘risky sign-in’ detections), by some referred to as IMPaas, or Impersonation-as-a-Service. The market seemed to have started in 2018 and its activities have resulted in approximately two million victims. If you want to know more about this operation, you can read our other blog post.

Code signing of applications is an essential element of macOS security. Besides signing applications, it is also possible to sign installer packages (.pkg files). During a short review of the xar source code, we found a vulnerability (CVE-2022-42841) that could be used to modify a signed installer package without invalidating its signature. This vulnerability could be abused to bypass Gatekeeper, SIP and under certain conditions elevate privileges to root.

This write-up is part 5 of a series of write-ups about the 5 vulnerabilities we demonstrated last April at Pwn2Own Miami. This is the write-up for an Arbitrary Code Execution vulnerability in ICONICS GENESIS64 (CVE-2022-33315). We successfully demonstrated this vulnerability during the competition, however it turned out that the vendor was already aware of this vulnerability. As this was also one of the most shallow bugs we used during the competition, this was something we already anticipated.

This write-up is part 4 of a series of write-ups about the 5 vulnerabilities we demonstrated last April at Pwn2Own Miami. This is the write-up for a Denial-of-Service in the Unified Automation OPC UA C++ Demo Server (CVE-2022-37013).

This write-up is part 3 of a series of write-ups about the 5 vulnerabilities we demonstrated last April at Pwn2Own Miami. This is the write-up for an Arbitrary Code Execution vulnerability in AVEVA Edge (CVE-2022-28688). Confirmed! @daankeuper & @xnyhps from @sector7_nl used an uncontrolled search path vuln to get RCE in AVEVA Edge. They win $20,000 and 20 Master of Pwn points. #Pwn2Own #P2O pic.twitter.com/5f3ECTHxDy — Zero Day Initiative (@thezdi) April 19, 2022 AVEVA Edge can be used to design Human Machine Interfaces (HMI).

If you have created a new macOS app with Xcode 13.2, you may noticed this new method in the template: - (BOOL)applicationSupportsSecureRestorableState:(NSApplication *)app { return YES; } This was added to the Xcode template to address a process injection vulnerability we reported! In October 2021, Apple fixed CVE-2021-30873. This was a process injection vulnerability affecting (essentially) all macOS AppKit-based applications. We reported this vulnerability to Apple, along with methods to use this vulnerability to escape the sandbox, elevate privileges to root and bypass the filesystem restrictions of SIP.