#windows

**What is the relationship between Mark of the Web and Windows SmartScreen?** When you download a file from the internet, Windows adds the zone identifier or Mark of the Web as an NTFS stream to the file. So, when you run the file, Windows SmartScreen checks if there is a zone identifier Alternate Data Stream (ADS) attached to the file. If the ADS indicates ZoneId=3 which means that the file was downloaded from the internet, the SmartScreen does a reputation check. For more information on SmartScreen, please visit Microsoft Defender SmartScreen overview | Microsoft Learn.

**According to the CVSS metric, user interaction is required (UI:R) and privileges required is Low (PR:L). What does that mean for this vulnerability?** A non-admin local user who has sufficient permissions to create symbolic links on a Windows computer that has Azure Connected Machine Agent installed (or before the agent is installed) could create links from a directory used by the agent to other privileged files on the computer. If the administrator later installs virtual machine extensions on the machine, those files could be deleted.

**What type of information could be disclosed by this vulnerability?** An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could potentially read small portions of heap memory.

**What privileges could be gained by an attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability?** An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could gain SYSTEM privileges.

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LaborOfficeFree installs a MySQL instance that runs as SYSTEM and calculates the MySQL root password based on two constants. Each time the program needs to connect to MySQL as root, it employs the reverse algorithm to calculate the root password. This issue has been tested on version 19.10 exclusively, but allegedly, versions prior to 19.10 are also vulnerable.

This is additional research regarding a mitigation bypass in Windows Defender. Back in 2022, the researcher disclosed how it could be easily bypassed by passing an extra path traversal when referencing mshtml but that issue has since been mitigated. However, the researcher discovered using multiple commas can also be used to achieve the bypass.

Enpass Desktop Application version 6.9.2 suffers from an html injection vulnerability.

Complaint Management System version 2.0 suffers from multiple remote SQL injection vulnerabilities.

SCHLIX version 2.2.8-1 suffers from a REGEX processing denial of service vulnerability.