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Dangerous Get Task Allow Entitlement on iExplorer example

Hey Hackers! 👋🏻 In this blog post, I want to show you why signing applications with get-task-allow entitlement may be dangerous and can lead to local privilege escalation bugs. We are going to exploit a real application, iExplorer, iOS application pentesters widely use that. Make a notice that iExplorer is only an example - a lot of apps have that excessive entitlement set. Entitlements? Since Mac OS X 10.11 El Capitan, Apple decided to add a new feature called System Integrity Protection (aka Rootless).