Like executing other applications.ĭue to that, these dialogs are often used to break out of Terminal Server environment or to elevate local user privileges. ![]() Microsoft Windows provide APIs for creating nice standard dialogs like "Open File." and "Save As." These dialogs are heavily integrated with Windows shell and offer much more than just file selection - within the dialog box you can do almost anything you can do using Windows Explorer. Here's the great presentation from Black Hat 2006 about this subject (slides 7-15): Security Engineering in Windows Vista Abusing Common Dialogs All these are textbook errors and Microsoft has spent last 10+ years trying to educate programmers and eliminate these kinds of bugs. To make matters worse, it doesn't even drop unnecessary privileges. ![]() To do that, it sits in the system tray and communicates with DeepFreeze driver.įor reasons I really can't understand, this simple UI component is executed under SYSTEM account. ![]() Running With Unnecessary Privilegesįrzstate2k.exe is application responsible for displaying Deep Freeze Workstation Configuration dialog. While preparing update for Meltdown, I encountered a textbook error in Faronics Deep Freeze Enterprise v8.31.
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