Galactical Bug Hunting: How we discovered new issues in CD Projekt Red’s Gaming Platform

3 years ago by testeronious to c/security

As a researcher I often run into situations in which I need to make a compiled binary do things that it wouldn’t normally do or change the way it works in some way. Of course, if one…
onlinepersona 0 points 3 years ago

As soon as they mentioned FixDirPrivileges as a command sent over IPC to a privileges process, I knew it was over. Being able to give read-write access to "Everybody" simply by sending a command is asking for trouble. They might've even taken the long route of creating a DLL that the privileged process loads. Is it no possible to replace the privileged process altogether with any random binary?

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