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A Steam vulnerability (0-Day) on Windows lets any normal user silently escalate to full SYSTEM privileges

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Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨floofloof@lemmy.ca⁩ to ⁨cybersecurity@infosec.pub⁩

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cross-posted from: piefed.world/…/a-steam-vulnerability-0-day-on-win…

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  • zwerg@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Why does steam need to run as system? I’m wondering what privileges steam needs on Linux…

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    • frongt@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      It probably doesn’t need to, but windows doesn’t make it easy for services to drop privileges.

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  • LodeMike@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Windows 💀💀💀

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