Details on the #rootpipe exploit will be presented, but not now. Let's just give Apple some time to roll out a patch to affected users.

— Emil Kvarnhammar (@emilkvarnhammar) October 16, 2014

"Rootpipe is a privilege escalation from admin to root so switching to a non-admin account would clearly be a good thing,"













A Swedish hacker founded out a serious vulnerability in Apple's OS X Yosemite called "Rootpipe" which allows root access to the attackers.The vulnerability was discovered by Swedish hacker Emil Kvarnhammar,who has been asked by apple to withhold the details until January 2015,with-in that time Apple will release a patch to users.Kvarnhammar said.Kvarnhammar had also founded exploit in previous versions of Apple's OS.