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shatter attack

noun

Etymology

Coined in a paper in 2002 by Chris Paget: Exploiting design flaws in the Win32 API for privilege escalation.

Definitions

  1. A means of bypassing security restrictions between processes in a session by having a…

    A means of bypassing security restrictions between processes in a session by having a less privileged process inject code into the message loop of a more privileged one.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for shatter attack. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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