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Re:Windows 0day privilege escalation still not fixed by withinrafael on Wednesday December 23, 2020 @04:33PM (#25522479)
Yep. For those that are seeking a temporary remedy, open Registry Editor, navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer, create/modify REG_DWORD value named AltTabSettings and set its value to 1. Restart your PC (restarting the Shell alone is possible but will currently introduce more bugs).
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Re:Windows 0day privilege escalation still not fixed by tubs on Thursday December 24, 2020 @07:35PM (#25533040)
Thank you! This is honestly the best winterveil gift I have received this year, very much appreciated!

When you say "temporary" remedy, is that implying there will be a real fix that obsoletes this, or this workaround will stop working at some point?

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Re:Windows 0day privilege escalation still not fixed by withinrafael on Thursday December 24, 2020 @08:12PM (#25533270)
It's fixed in the next major release so hopefully we can restore the value back to 0 when it's pushed out in Q1 2021.
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Re:Windows 0day privilege escalation still not fixed by tubs on Thursday December 24, 2020 @08:21PM (#25533327)
Awesome, thanks for the fix, and the super quick replies, have a great season. :-)
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