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Windows Remote Desktop Exploit In the Wild

Posted by samzenpus on from the known-weakness dept.

angry tapir writes "Luigi Auriemma, the researcher who discovered a recently patched critical vulnerability in Microsoft's Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP), published a proof-of-concept exploit for it after a separate working exploit, which he said possibly originated from Microsoft, was leaked online on Friday. Identified as CVE-2012-0002 and patched by Microsoft on Tuesday, the critical vulnerability can be exploited remotely to execute arbitrary code on systems that accept RDP connections."

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  1. Did anyone think it was secure anyway? by dbIII · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Doesn't everyone with a clue use it via a VPN anyway?