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Isn’t the definition of privilege escalation going from non-root to root or did you mean that any RCE on an application gets you root. Nit picking comment asid
by ec109685 8y ago
Isn’t the definition of privilege escalation going from non-root to root or did you mean that any RCE on an application gets you root.
Nit picking comment aside, I wonder if the fact that it is single-user was one of the reasons Apple did not go with it.
- saghm 8y agoOn a multi-user system, you could have one non-root user gain privileges granted to another non-root user, which I think would still be considered a privilege escalation; e.g. before the escalation, I only have access to my own home directory, but afterwards, I have access to both my own and yours.