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shatter attack

shatter attack noun: a means of bypassing security restrictions between processes in a session by having a less privileged process inject code into the message loop of a more privileged one.

Noun

shatter attack (plural shatter attacks)

  1. A means of bypassing security restrictions between processes in a session by having a less privileged process inject code into the message loop of a more privileged one.

Forms of shatter attack

pluralshatter attacks

Origin of shatter attack

Coined in a paper in 2002 by Chris Paget: Exploiting design flaws in the Win32 API for privilege escalation.

Questions about shatter attack

What does shatter attack mean?
Shatter attack means a means of bypassing security restrictions between processes in a session by having a less privileged process inject code into the message loop of a more privileged one.
What part of speech is shatter attack?
Shatter attack is a noun.
What is the plural of shatter attack?
The plural of shatter attack is shatter attacks.

Words near shatter attack in the dictionary

  1. shats
  2. shatt
  3. Shatt al-Arab
  4. Shatt-al-Arab
  5. shatter
  6. shatter attack
  7. shatter attacks
  8. shatter box
  9. shatter boxes
  10. shatter cone
  11. shatter cones

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