full-disclosure - MS Windows Screensaver Privilege Escalation

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From: devis at easynix.net (devis)
Subject: MS Windows Screensaver Privilege Escalation

Pavel Kankovsky wrote:

>On Thu, 25 Nov 2004, 3APA3A wrote:
>
>They have two different groups of users: more or less almighty
>Administrators and Power Users who are supposed to be less powerful. But
>Power Users are in fact as powerful as Administrators. This leads to a
>false sense of security and this is a vulnerability...even if it might not
>be a vulnerability in the technical sense. Why don't they remove the group 
>or disable it when users should not be assigned to it?
>
>Moreover, it is pretty stupid to give users rights to modify critical
>system directories just to let them install new software.
>
>--Pavel Kankovsky aka Peak  [ Boycott Microsoft--http://www.vcnet.com/bms ]
>"Resistance is futile. Open your source code and prepare for assimilation."
>
>_______________________________________________
>Full-Disclosure - We believe in it.
>Charter: http://lists.netsys.com/full-disclosure-charter.html
>
>
>  
>
I have to completely agree on both points. But will MS switch to a real 
secure model or will it keep its 'useability' by running 'default' 
priviledged ?