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vulnerabilities
Bypassing Administrator Protection by Abusing UI Access
A researcher discovered and disclosed nine bypasses of Windows Administrator Protection, five of which exploited vulnerabilities in the UI Access implementation. UI Access was designed to allow accessibility applications to interact with higher-privilege processes while maintaining User Interface Privacy Isolation (UIPI) protections, but the feature's implementation contained exploitable weaknesses that have since been patched.
Why it matters: Windows administrators and security teams need to ensure affected systems are fully patched, as these bypasses could allow attackers to escalate privileges by abusing accessibility features; organizations relying on accessibility software should verify their implementations meet current security requirements.
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vulnerabilities
Bypassing Administrator Protection by Abusing UI Access
A researcher discovered and disclosed nine bypasses of Windows Administrator Protection, five of which exploited vulnerabilities in the UI Access implementation. UI Access was designed to allow accessibility applications to interact with higher-privilege processes while maintaining User Interface Privacy Isolation (UIPI) protections, but the feature's implementation contained exploitable weaknesses that have since been patched.
Why it matters: Windows administrators and security teams need to ensure affected systems are fully patched, as these bypasses could allow attackers to escalate privileges by abusing accessibility features; organizations relying on accessibility software should verify their implementations meet current security requirements.
- Source published
- First seen by Cybersecurity Tracker