While Apple scrambles to issue a software fix for a major macOS High Sierra vulnerability, astute observers are wondering what took the company so long to react — after all, the problem was known about weeks ago.。
It seems that on November 13, a commenter on an Apple developer forum disclosed the very vulnerability that today threw the infosec community into a frenzy. Oh, and it was called out 9 days ago on Twitter as well.。
SEE ALSO:How to protect yourself from the massive macOS High Sierra security vulnerability。SEE ALSO:How to protect yourself from the massive macOS High Sierra security vulnerability 。
By signing up you agree to our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. 。 Thanks for signing up! 。To execute the hack, you only needed to go to。System Preferences >
Users & Groups 。
, then enter "root" as your user name while leaving the password field blank. Try this a few times until you have access. It's that simple. The exploit was first explained by Apple developer chethan17777. 。
Again, chethan17777 posted this on November 13. Apple only issued instructions on how to protect yourself against this on November 28.。
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