ifwatchd Privilege Escalation
Posted on 08 October 2018
This Metasploit module attempts to gain root privileges on QNX 6.4.x and 6.5.x systems by exploiting the ifwatchd suid executable. ifwatchd allows users to specify scripts to execute using the '-A' command line argument; however, it does not drop privileges when executing user-supplied scripts, resulting in execution of arbitrary commands as root. This Metasploit module has been tested successfully on QNX Neutrino 6.5.0 (x86) and 6.5.0 SP1 (x86).
