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Second Windows 7 UAC security flaw: malware can silently self-elevate with default UAC policy
Posted by: Philipp Esselbach on: 02/04/2009 10:15 AM [ Print | 0 comment(s) ] · 716 views
Long Zheng reports that there is a second security flaw in Windows 7 UAC
>> Second Windows 7 UAC security flaw: malware can silently self-elevate with default UAC policy
| Soon after writing my last blog post on the potential security vulnerability to autonomously disable Windows 7 beta’s UAC system, I had realized that flaw was just one piece in a string of dominoes that fell much earlier when the new tiered-UAC system was introduced in Windows 7.
In summary, a second UAC security flaw in the Windows 7 beta’s default security configuration allows a malicious application to autonomously elevate themselves to full administrative privileges without UAC prompts or turning UAC off. A result I’m sure cannot be classified as “by design”. |
>> Second Windows 7 UAC security flaw: malware can silently self-elevate with default UAC policy
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