shatter attack

English

Etymology

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

Noun

shatter attack (plural shatter attacks)

  1. (computing, Microsoft Windows) 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.
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