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by trifurcate 1020 days ago
And, crucial to this exploit actually working to the extent it did, Microsoft's own developers failed to implement a secure authentication check on top of their own libraries and infrastructure.
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How so?
Leaving credentials and keys in memory.
Also completely failing to check the scope of the request before validating it!

> Microsoft provided an API to help validate the signatures cryptographically but did not update these libraries to perform this scope validation automatically