Here's a screenshot of the rtfd file opened in TextEdit: You can unzip the rtfd, double-click to open it in TextEdit, follow the simple instructions written inside, and you'll end up with an app that you can double-click to launch - all without any macOS Gatekeeper alert, and all without any Developer ID or notarization.Īnd there you have it, the easiest way yet to distribute unnotarized Mac apps! Perhaps too easy… rtfd file) in TextEdit and then compressed it. Instead, I embedded the zipped app into a "rich text" document (. I compressed Gatecrasher into a zip file, but as you'll see, that's not what you're downloading.
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Gatecrasher isn't signed with an Apple code signing certificate and isn't notarized it has only an "ad hoc" ( codesign -s -) code signature with no identity. It has no code other than the standard NSApplicationMain and the default MainMenu.xib file with the main menu and window.
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Gatecrasher is an empty Mac app that I created in Xcode in a few minutes. Which is actually good news for us right now, because we can use it to distribute Mac apps! For your enjoyment, I've created an example, which I call Gatecrasher: I never received a bug bounty from Apple, and as far as I can tell this sandbox escape still exists in Big Sur. This causes the quarantine to be removed from the executable, because TextEdit has the special .user-selected.executable entitlement.
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(If you think you can "just right click", well no, that's not quite how it works.) And then it finally hit me like a brick of gold wrapped in a lemon: I already knew how to remove the quarantine with a GUI, because this was my Mac sandbox escape! If you recall, a year ago I showed how to escape the sandbox by opening a maliciously crafted executable in TextEdit and then telling TextEdit via AppleScript to save the executable file. Still, this method is not ideal, because the app developer has to send users to the scary place: the command line! So I've continued to wonder if there's a relatively simple way to do it with a graphical interface.
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Unlike web browsers, curl does not add the extended attribute to downloaded files. Last month I wondered what's the best way to distribute Mac apps without notarization, and I decided that the best way was downloading with curl directly to the Applications folder. (My April Fools joke that I got hired by Apple as a Swift Evangelist backfired with a profusion of congratulations.) This blog post is a kind of follow-up to some previous blog posts. Support this blog: StopTheMadness, Link Unshortener, Underpass, PayPal.Me Articles index Distributing unnotarized Mac apps in a text file Apby Jeff Johnson