A vulnerability in Steam portal could allow attackers to gain complete control of users’ PC

guest · Jan 10, 2019

A vulnerability in Steam portal could allow attackers to gain complete control of users’ PC
January 9, 2019
https://cyware.com/news/a-vulnerabi...to-gain-complete-control-of-users-pc-03a9346f

A security researcher who goes by name Zemnmez uncovered a vulnerability in Steam portal. The bug could allow attackers to gain complete control over users’ PC.
Users' Personal Data at risk
“The best way to exploit the bug is to post a link to the gamer, which when clicked would launch an attack code and hand over the victim’s PC to the hacker,” Shadwell told Forbes.

Shadwell reported that the vulnerability exists in the Steam Chat feature. “Many modern chat applications include ‘rich content,’ such as including a YouTube player with messages. The attack used flaws in the Steam Chat client’s protections around this content to access otherwise restricted functionality that Steam uses internally to open files on the user’s computer,” Shadwell explained.
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