def main()

in cortado/rtas/user_dir_escalation.py [0:0]

• 12 lines of code
• 4 McCabe index (conditional complexity)

def main() -> None:
    # make sure path is absolute for psexec
    if not _common.elevate_to_system():
        raise _common.ExecutionError("Can't elevate to system")

    log.info("Run a user-writeable file as system")
    source_path = _common.get_resource_path("bin/myapp.exe")

    target_directory = "c:\\users\\fake_user_rta-%d" % os.getpid()
    if not Path(target_directory).is_dir():
        Path(target_directory).mkdir(parents=True)

    target_path = Path(target_directory) / "user_file.exe"
    _common.copy_file(source_path, target_path)
    _ = _common.execute_command(str(target_path), shell=True)

    _common.remove_directory(target_directory)