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by justinclift 1277 days ago
Heh. Reminds of one of Symantec's "Enterprise" products.

Turned out, if you're logged into the central (on prem) server it has the ability to run commands as root/superuser on any of the connected clients (generally servers themselves).

The commands run this way are _not logged_ and don't show up in any system audit logging.

After we pointed this out as a security problem in itself, they released a new version that _apparently_ had this functionality removed (was in the release notes).

But digging into the new release, they'd just moved the functionality into different binaries and hoped no-one would notice. :(

The mind boggles at what some of these places will try.

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"Required functionality..." They're just not telling you who the requirements come from.