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Basically it means if someone has user access on a Mac with Homebrew (with default settings), they also have root. So a remote hole in, say, Safari, means your
by Fnoord 7y ago
Basically it means if someone has user access on a Mac with Homebrew (with default settings), they also have root. So a remote hole in, say, Safari, means your entire system is compromised.
(That said, I actually use Homebrew.)
- saagarjha 7y agoThey don't quite have root per se, but they have a functional elevation of privileges if some some other software has a bug in it with regards to pulling binaries from $PATH, which is quite common.