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There are far more damaging "malicious scripts" one could trick someone into running, such as "cd; rm -rf *".

Like I said, it's not good, but it's not what I would call a "security hole" because there is no escalation of privilege. I like Raymond Chen's take on the topic: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2006/05/08/59235...



"Like I said, it's not good, but it's not what I would call a "security hole" because there is no escalation of privilege."

Doesn't the end of the article suggest that without admin access, you could just reset the password for any admin user, then be able to log in as them? Sounds like priv escalation to me.

Edit: Actually, reading further comments, it seems you can only reset the password of the currently logged in user without reauthentication, so you can only get admin privs if you've already got a console with admin privs. I'm wrong.




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