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Labro said he discovered the zero-day after he released an update to PrivescCheck, a tool to check common Windows security misconfigurations that can be abused by malware for privilege escalation. Issue discovered and disclosed accidentallyīut while most security researchers report severe security issues like these to Microsoft in private, when they find them, in Labro's case, this was too late. While on recent versions of Windows, these DLLs are usually restricted and loaded with limited privileges, Labro said that on Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008, it was still possible to load custom DLLs that ran with SYSTEM-level privileges. "Performance" subkeys are usually employed to monitor an app's performance, and, because of their role, they also allow developers to load their own DLL files to track performance using custom tools. HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Dnscacheįrench security researcher Clément Labro, who discovered the zero-day, says that an attacker that has a foothold on vulnerable systems can modify these registry keys to activate a sub-key usually employed by the Windows Performance Monitoring mechanism.HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\RpcEptMapper.The vulnerability resides in two misconfigured registry keys for the RPC Endpoint Mapper and DNSCache services that are part of all Windows installations. We review Apple's M1 Ultra-powered Mac StudioĬan digital dollars be as anonymous as cash?Ī French security researcher has accidentally discovered a zero-day vulnerability that impacts the Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 operating systems while working on an update to a Windows security tool. Ukrainian developers share stories from the war zone When the boss gets angry at employees' Teams habits
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