[40220] in bugtraq
Re: Microsoft Windows keybd_event validation vulnerability
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (galacticjello@eforu.com)
Wed Sep 7 14:03:34 2005
Date: 6 Sep 2005 22:18:36 -0000
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From: galacticjello@eforu.com
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That's because it's not an exploit. If you have a program that can run a shell, and it is running under a privileged account, guess what? The shell will run under the same privileged account.
This "exploit" is a "by design".
The writers suggest that if you are logged in to a privileged account, then do a "run as" to run another app under a non-privliged account, you can script explorer to run a shell as your original privileged account (which you could just do anyway by dropping to a command prompt).
They must be dragging the bottom of the barrel for "exploits".
