Vista’s Sticky Keys just as exploitable as other Windows versions
Filed under: OS Updates, News, Windows, Microsoft
Sticky Keys is a feature in Microsoft Windows which gives those with disabilities the power to control the keyboard in non-standard ways. By holding down the Shift key, or pressing it five times in rapid succession a handicapped user can activate Sticky Keys, which removes the requirement that you be able to hold down multiple keys at once to access many windows functions.
Windows Vista, like earlier versions of Windows, doesn’t check the integrity of the actual executable which is launched when a user activates Sticky Keys. So, on a machine with policy lockdowns in place, where a user isn’t allowed to run CMD or other system apps, all one needs is to replace the “sethc.exe” executable with their executable of choice and click their heels three times while saying, “there’s no place like home” hit Shift five times.
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