Knockout Win Against TCC - 20+ NEW Ways to Bypass Your MacOS Privacy Mechanisms
summary
Claim: 20+ practical TCC bypasses that still work (or did) on Big Sur/Monterey/Ventura, with demos and PoCs. Examples include a CoreMedia IO plugin load that places an Objective‑C constructor into app contexts to take camera/microphone permissions (five Apple apps hit, Photo Booth and Contacts among them, one yields full TCC DB control), a global SQLITE_TRACE abuse to dump Contacts/Mail/Notes, iCloud helper token extraction from GarageBand/iMovie to read Find My location, MacL drag‑and‑drop registration to open protected files, and sysadmin tools (asr, Time Machine, mobilebackup, Remote Management) used to clone or mount backups and read private data; most issues are fixed but some fixes break usability.
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chapters (14)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:09Context and Recap
- 3:07Mac OS Security Basics
- 5:43Plugin Exploitation
- 9:18Privilege Escalation
- 11:21MacL File Bypass
- 13:53SQL Tracing Vulnerability
- 15:12iCloud Data Extraction
- 17:54SysAdmin Tool Attacks
- 21:47Mobile Backup Exploits
- 28:12Remote Management Risks
- 32:12Mounting and Hardlinks
- 35:48Ventura Security Changes
- 38:27Conclusion
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