{"id":15731,"date":"2015-11-27T13:20:39","date_gmt":"2015-11-27T19:20:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=15731"},"modified":"2015-11-27T13:20:39","modified_gmt":"2015-11-27T19:20:39","slug":"lenovo-patches-serious-vulnerabilities-in-pc-system-update-tool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=15731","title":{"rendered":"Lenovo patches serious vulnerabilities in PC system update tool"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>One of the vulnerabilities is located in the tool&#8217;s help system and allows users with limited Windows accounts to start an instance of Internet Explorer with administrator privileges by clicking on URLs in help pages. That&#8217;s because Lenovo System Update itself runs under a temporary administrator account that the application creates when installed, so any process it spawns will run under the same account.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.csoonline.com\/article\/3008869\/security\/lenovo-patches-serious-vulnerabilities-in-pc-system-update-tool.html\">Lenovo patches serious vulnerabilities in PC system update tool<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the vulnerabilities is located in the tool&#8217;s help system and allows users with limited Windows accounts to start an instance of Internet Explorer with administrator privileges by clicking on URLs in help pages. That&#8217;s because Lenovo System Update &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=15731\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[1125,116,692],"class_list":["post-15731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pc-issues","tag-exploit-vector","tag-lenovo","tag-user-management"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15731"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15731\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15732,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15731\/revisions\/15732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}