authentication – Bypassing Windows 10 password with Utilman.exe trick – fixed? – Information Security Stack Exchange
Posted by jpluimers on 2021/05/03
It is debatable if these tricks are vulnerabilities or not: [WayBack] authentication – Bypassing Windows 10 password with Utilman.exe trick – fixed? – Information Security Stack Exchange.
There are arguments that leaving a system open to physical access or allow operating system manipulation, it means it is busted.
On the other hand, making systems more resilient to modification, helps alleviate these problems.
So it pays for developers to harden operating systems against modification.
From the question:
Of the
sethc.exe,Utilman.exe, andosk.exeones in Windows,Utilman.exeseems to have been fixed.
Related:
- [Archive.is] Der gute alte utilman Hack funktioniert fortan nur noch im abgesicherten Modus – Administrator
- [WayBack] authentication – Bypassing Windows 10 password with Utilman.exe trick – fixed? – Information Security Stack Exchange
–jeroen
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